Disconnects and lag while gaming

[Devrij]

I'M currently with Virgin on their 20Mb service, have all the necessary ports forwarded to a static IP, and yet get regular dropped connections while gaming online. It's rare that I can even finish a game without it lagging out. What can I do to fix this? I ran uo trace and I seem to be dropping packets pretty badly on a couple "unknown" points on the way to the server. Help!

 

[-=Vect0r=-]

Router? Wired or wireless?

 

[SpiderX]

not just you, seems VM are having problems atm

http://status-cable.virginmedia.com/vmstatus/summary.do