Weird connection problems

I've been having strange connection problems with the Virtue server lately. Every so often, more often while I'm fighting in instanced areas, I'll have sudden bursts of lag, where my ping soars to around 1000-2000. Here's the weird thing: I can send information fine, but it lags when I recieve it. For example, I can send a message to the chat, but by the time it shows up, someone can already have replied to it. I'm very sure it's not a problem with my connection, since I get perfectly fine connectivity outside the game as far as I know of.

Does anyone have any similar problems? I'll post PC specs if they're necessary - I'm running Windows 7.

Here's two netgraphs. The first is the more mild, constant case I get consistently, this was with a light team of 4 doing a paper mission. The second is the more severe case I get while in huge fights, this particular one was during a full LRSF versus Agent Crimson. The very jagged-looking parts of the netgraph are normal - it's the big, long bars that are where the problem is.

Mild:


Severe:

Well I think I saw an announcement that they're taking Virtue down for maintenance, (or have done so), you might wait and see if that fixes the issue.

HijackThis:

Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4
Scan saved at 6:03:26 PM, on 5/6/2010
Platform: Windows 7 (WinNT 6.00.3504)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.7600.16385)
Boot mode: Normal

Running processes:
C:\Windows\system32\taskhost.exe
C:\Windows\system32\Dwm.exe
C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE
C:\Program Files\ESET\ESET NOD32 Antivirus\egui.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Java\Java Update\jusched.exe
C:\Program Files\AIM\aim.exe
C:\Program Files\Pando Networks\Media Booster\PMB.exe
C:\Program Files\DNA\btdna.exe
C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger\msnmsgr.exe
C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Contacts\wlcomm.exe
C:\Users\Plasma\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Applic ation\chrome.exe
C:\Users\Plasma\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Applic ation\chrome.exe
C:\Users\Plasma\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Applic ation\chrome.exe
C:\Users\Plasma\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Applic ation\chrome.exe
C:\Users\Plasma\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Applic ation\chrome.exe
C:\Users\Plasma\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Applic ation\chrome.exe
C:\Users\Plasma\Documents\Downloads\HiJackThis.exe
C:\Windows\system32\SearchFilterHost.exe

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R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Page = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=54896
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=69157
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search,SearchAssistant =
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search,CustomizeSearch =
R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar,LinksFolderName =
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {5C255C8A-E604-49b4-9D64-90988571CECB} - (no file)
O2 - BHO: Windows Live Sign-in Helper - {9030D464-4C02-4ABF-8ECC-5164760863C6} - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live\WindowsLiveLogin.dll
O2 - BHO: Java(tm) Plug-In 2 SSV Helper - {DBC80044-A445-435b-BC74-9C25C1C588A9} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jp2ssv.dll
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O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SunJavaUpdateSched] "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Java\Java Update\jusched.exe"
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Google Update] "C:\Users\Plasma\AppData\Local\Google\Update\Googl eUpdate.exe" /c
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [uTorrent] "C:\Program Files\uTorrent\uTorrent.exe"
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Aim] "C:\Program Files\AIM\aim.exe" /d locale=en-US
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [DAEMON Tools Lite] "C:\Program Files\DAEMON Tools Lite\DTLite.exe" -autorun
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Pando Media Booster] C:\Program Files\Pando Networks\Media Booster\PMB.exe
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [BitTorrent DNA] "C:\Program Files\DNA\btdna.exe"
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O4 - Startup: LimeWire On Startup.lnk = C:\Program Files\LimeWire\LimeWire.exe
O23 - Service: Dragon Age: Origins - Content Updater (DAUpdaterSvc) - BioWare - C:\Program Files\Dragon Age\bin_ship\DAUpdaterSvc.Service.exe
O23 - Service: Eset HTTP Server (EHttpSrv) - ESET - C:\Program Files\ESET\ESET NOD32 Antivirus\EHttpSrv.exe
O23 - Service: Eset Service (ekrn) - ESET - C:\Program Files\ESET\ESET NOD32 Antivirus\ekrn.exe
O23 - Service: NVIDIA Display Driver Service (nvsvc) - NVIDIA Corporation - C:\Windows\system32\nvvsvc.exe
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Off the cuff, some people have been reporting problems with wireless networking in conjunction with I17. Are you on a wireless network adapter?

You have uTorrent, BitTorrent, Pando, LimeWire, Java Update, Google Update, AIM and MSN Messenger. These all take bandwidth, you might try turning them all off when you're trying to run CoH.