Am I the only having trouble here?

It most times does seem worse in the eves out here, but the pings and trace routes don't seem to reflect that.

well, one answer would be that the site itself is quite busy in the evenings -- which wouldn't be reflected in the tracerts --

At the same time -- the servers are way overkill for what we need so there should be no problem there. In addition, as I have said before - I am seeing none of this. I'll get a little sluggish at times if I use IE -- but, its IE so that's expected.