Well looks like it's back again(at least on my end). Nothing has changed on my end, was good for awhile, but starting around 4pm today it's getting out of hand again.
Tracing route to verizon.com [192.76.85.245]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms myrouter.home [192.168.1.1]
2 239 ms 433 ms 287 ms L100.LSANCA-VFTTP-142.verizon-gni.net [173.55.53
.1]
3 31 ms 6 ms 9 ms G4-0-6-1142.LSANCA-LCR-11.verizon-gni.net [130.8
1.140.122]
4 249 ms 158 ms 134 ms so-4-3-0-0.LAX01-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net [130.81
.29.244]
5 256 ms 363 ms 342 ms 0.so-6-2-0.XT1.LAX7.ALTER.NET [152.63.112.45]
6 357 ms 295 ms 307 ms 0.ge-7-0-0.XT1.SAC1.ALTER.NET [152.63.49.89]
7 334 ms 320 ms 318 ms GigabitEthernet6-0-0.GW9.SAC1.ALTER.NET [152.63.
55.73]
8 170 ms 187 ms 176 ms verizon-gw.customer.alter.net [157.130.203.246]
9 296 ms 241 ms 266 ms 192.76.84.5
10 * * * Request timed out.