Ping plotter, advice please Options

[Bargod]

So, I've got some guys from the cable company coming over this afternoon, the result of my call about high ping since changing from Comcast to Time Warner. I ran ping plotter last nite and see that I'm getting lots of packet loss in steps 2, 3, and 4, mostly. At time up to 60%, but there is always some. Currently it's 15% in step 2, 15% in step 3 and 50% in step 4. These are all my local cable company.
How should I go about explaining this to the guys and not get the run around like I did form the IT guy when I called earlier in the week? I know just enough about this stuff to be dangerous.
Thanks in advance.

Here are some samples:

Target Name: N/A
IP: 8.9.4.77
Date/Time: 3/2/2007 12:02:39 PM to 3/2/2007 12:02:58 PM

Hop Sent Err PL% Min Max Avg Host Name / [IP]
1 20 0 0.0 7 28 10 cpe-76-184-16-1.tx.res.rr.com [76.184.16.1]
2 20 1 5.0 7 10 7 [70.125.216.17]
3 19 4 21.1 7 24 9 [70.125.217.8]
4 20 7 35.0 7 23 10 gig2-0-0.dllatxl3-rtr1.texas.rr.com [24.93.37.97]
5 9 0 0.0 13 14 13 gig2-2-0.hstqtxl3-rtr1.texas.rr.com [72.179.205.14]
6 9 0 0.0 13 22 15 te-2-4.car1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.79.88.25]
7 20 0 0.0 14 197 39 ae-11-11.car2.Houston1.Level3.net [4.69.132.234]
8 20 0 0.0 50 69 56 ae-5-5.ebr1.Atlanta2.Level3.net [4.69.132.238]
9 20 0 0.0 50 80 57 ae-1-100.ebr2.Atlanta2.Level3.net [4.69.132.34]
10 20 0 0.0 69 84 74 ae-3.ebr2.Chicago1.Level3.net [4.69.132.73]
11 20 0 0.0 69 192 83 ae-24-56.car4.Chicago1.Level3.net [4.68.101.168]
12 20 0 0.0 69 85 71 [4.79.66.146]
13 20 0 0.0 69 87 72 [8.9.4.77]

Target Name: N/A
IP: 8.9.4.77
Date/Time: 3/2/2007 12:04:24 PM to 3/2/2007 12:04:43 PM

Hop Sent Err PL% Min Max Avg Host Name / [IP]
1 20 0 0.0 7 12 8 cpe-76-184-16-1.tx.res.rr.com [76.184.16.1]
2 20 0 0.0 7 11 7 [70.125.216.17]
3 20 8 40.0 7 60 12 [70.125.217.8]
4 20 4 20.0 7 26 10 gig2-0-0.dllatxl3-rtr1.texas.rr.com [24.93.37.97]
5 9 0 0.0 13 75 20 gig2-2-0.hstqtxl3-rtr1.texas.rr.com [72.179.205.14]
6 8 0 0.0 13 17 14 te-2-3.car1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.79.88.29]
7 20 0 0.0 13 20 14 ae-11-11.car2.Houston1.Level3.net [4.69.132.234]
8 20 0 0.0 50 65 55 ae-5-5.ebr1.Atlanta2.Level3.net [4.69.132.238]
9 20 0 0.0 50 92 57 ae-1-100.ebr2.Atlanta2.Level3.net [4.69.132.34]
10 20 0 0.0 70 100 77 ae-3.ebr2.Chicago1.Level3.net [4.69.132.73]
11 20 0 0.0 70 73 70 ae-24-56.car4.Chicago1.Level3.net [4.68.101.168]
12 20 0 0.0 70 88 72 [4.79.66.146]
13 20 0 0.0 69 88 71 [8.9.4.77]

Target Name: N/A
IP: 8.9.4.77
Date/Time: 3/2/2007 12:05:05 PM to 3/2/2007 12:05:24 PM

Hop Sent Err PL% Min Max Avg Host Name / [IP]
1 20 0 0.0 7 26 9 cpe-76-184-16-1.tx.res.rr.com [76.184.16.1]
2 20 0 0.0 7 10 7 [70.125.216.17]
3 20 4 20.0 7 12 8 [70.125.217.8]
4 20 9 45.0 7 11 8 gig2-0-0.dllatxl3-rtr1.texas.rr.com [24.93.37.97]
5 11 0 0.0 14 19 15 gig2-2-0.hstqtxl3-rtr1.texas.rr.com [72.179.205.14]
6 8 0 0.0 13 116 46 [4.79.88.21]
7 20 0 0.0 13 196 47 ae-11-11.car2.Houston1.Level3.net [4.69.132.234]
8 20 0 0.0 50 72 58 ae-5-5.ebr1.Atlanta2.Level3.net [4.69.132.238]
9 20 0 0.0 51 73 58 ae-1-100.ebr2.Atlanta2.Level3.net [4.69.132.34]
10 20 0 0.0 70 84 75 ae-3.ebr2.Chicago1.Level3.net [4.69.132.73]
11 20 0 0.0 70 76 71 ae-24-56.car4.Chicago1.Level3.net [4.68.101.168]
12 20 0 0.0 70 92 73 [4.79.66.146]
13 20 0 0.0 69 73 70 [8.9.4.77]

[Bargod]

Personally, I believe I got a guy who knows what he is talking about, but whose job is to "deflect" blame. The first person I talked to had me run tracert and said, yeah, there is a problem on our end. So he transferred me to IT... where I sat on hold for nearly an hour. Then the IT guy I got told me that the guys that take the intitial calls don't know what the hell they are talking about and that tracert means absolutely nothing. He had me go to speakesy.com (which caused 15 minutes worth of delays since his accent was so heavy I went somewhere else that also had a speedtest button to push) to run a speed test. He told me that my speed was excellent. I pointed out that speed wasn't the problem. The problem was that my pings have doubled since Time Warner took over Comcast. He then blamed it on the server I played on. I pointed out that I play on servers all over the country and that by using xfire I can constantly check my pings and they aren't spiking, they are HIGH. He once again blamed it on the servers and said none of it was TWC's fault. I told him I wasn't satisfied with his answer and asked to talk to a different IT person. He offered his supervisor and I said "that would be great". He then transferred me to a line that had a message on it saying that "the new # is...". I hung up and dialed that number directly to get somebody who isn't in IT and told me that her # was changed so long ago she was suprised there was still a message on there. She said the message was only supposed to be on there for a month (I assume this is why the IT guy transferred me to it, because it wasn't supposed to go anywhere). But she wanted to help. So, that is why I've got guys coming to my house who probably won't be able to do anything.
Grrrrr....