Thank you very much Ethereal_Dragon
For my default gateway ping, the time is always about 50ms, but after a couple dozen pings it displays a "request timed out" for about 5 lines. This occurs in a stable pattern and is not random. Same deal for google, except the time is always about 2ms.
Soooo, this basically shows exactly what I experience trying to surf the web. Sucks, but I will be out of here soon.
thank you again!