Help! High Ping after five minutes of game play!

This is something really new to me and sounds like a virus of some sort maybe.

It started happening a month ago while I was playing COD4, I would connect to my usual server and start playing with a ping of 35-55, then after five minutes my ping would sky rocket to 200 and keep going.

At first I thought it was the server then tried multiple servers with the same problem. Then I thought it was my other computers in my house, after shutting them down and restarting my game nothing changed. Then I updated punkbuster thinking it was that and nothing.

It isn't just COD4 it happens with BF2 and BF2142, but when it happens in BF2 my in game connection reads a good (44).

I ran a full virus and spyware check on my system, and found a handful of Trojans and the typical amount of cookies. After deleting them all restarting my com and BF2 same crap.

I sure you can imagine the frustration I'm going through when playing a sweet round of COD4 then It gets laggy as ****.

Please can some one HELP me, Left 4 Dead will be coming out soon and I don't want to deal with this while playing......HELP!

do you use an amd proc and have the amd optimiser?

Used to happen to me and i think that was the reason at least for me, if not i would look at the drivers for your lan port.

I don't know if it's overheating or crap firmware or what - but they've slipped a long way from back in the day when they made the *only* reliable print servers for less than £150.

I spent a few weeks tryig to diagnose one for one of the directors here - I wouldn't say that one was getting too warm as it was on a hard surface in a well ventilated place etc, but maybe the case design is *that* bad...