Trying to understand how my internet works

[RaFi]

A little background, I am using a wireless internet provider, Telkom flatly refuse to install cables to my area. For the last 6 weeks I have been struggling with specifically Battlefield 3's online play. I get disconnected or kicked by the server or PunkBuster. I have tried various solutions but with no success. Before I go on the warpath with EA and PunkBuster, I would like to ensure the problem is not with me, even though I can play all the other games with no problems.

I use WinMTR to inspect the path to a BF3 server. At first there was a problem with the wireless part, but this is now more or less sorted. Now I see huge losses on the ADSL part and huge ping spikes. I suspect that as soon as the EA server or PunkBuster detect this loss, it kicks me.

My suspicion is that the service provider who provides the internet to my wireless provider has got problems. But I don't know how to prove it to them so that they will understand. It is also possible that I am horribly wrong.

I need someone to explain the following table to me, I used WinMTR to trace the path from me to my BF3 server, hosted by MWEB.

|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| WinMTR statistics |
| Host - % | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
1 ***.***.**.* - 0 | 107 | 107 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | <--- Is this my PC?
2 ***.**.*.** - 3 | 99 | 97 | 2 | 4 | 28 | 3 |
3 ***.**.*.**- 4 | 95 | 92 | 2 | 7 | 74 | 4 |
4 ***.**.*.** - 1 | 103 | 102 | 3 | 7 | 28 | 9 |
5 ***.**.*.** - 4 | 95 | 92 | 5 | 11 | 76 | 9 |
6 ***.*.*.* - 5 | 91 | 87 | 4 | 11 | 80 | 9 |
7 ***.**.*.* - 3 | 99 | 97 | 5 | 11 | 74 | 7 |
8 ***.**.*.** - 32 | 48 | 33 | 7 | 31 | 59 | 11 |
9 dsl-243-44-01.telkomadsl.co.za - 38 | 43 | 27 | 21 | 53 |104 |42 | <--- ADSL starts here?
10 cdsl2-rba-vl2663.ip.isnet.net - 37 | 44 | 28 | 0 | 62 | 103 | 90 | <--- Who or what is here?
11 cdsl2-rba-vl150.ip.isnet.net - 44 | 39 | 22 | 0 | 60 | 105 | 81 |
12 168.209.1.140 - 41 | 42 | 25 | 0 | 61 | 92 | 77 |
13 196.26.0.10 - 38 | 43 | 27 | 29 | 61 | 115 | 85 |
14 mweb-1.jinx.net.za - 44 | 39 | 22 | 30 | 57 | 104 | 85 |
15 tengige0-2-0-0.vic-up-1.mweb.co.za - 41 | 42 | 25 | 0 | 68 | 111 | 65 |
16 tengig0-7-0-3.vic-p-2.mweb.co.za - 38 | 43 | 27 | 37 | 66 | 104 | 100 |
17 vl-11.vic-hscore-1.mweb.co.za - 38 | 43 | 27 | 29 | 63 | 105 | 85 |
18 197-80-132-6.jhb.mweb.co.za - 44 | 39 | 22 | 41 | 68 | 101 | 101 |
19 197.80.198.66 - 43 | 40 | 23 | 0 | 67 | 112 | 112 |
20 196.28.69.40 - 44 | 39 | 22 | 27 | 59 | 128 |103 |<--- My BF3 server, empty and lonely.
|________________________________________________| ______|______|______|______|______|______|
WinMTR v0.92 GPL V2 by Appnor MSP - Fully Managed Hosting & Cloud Provider

I understand that the first 8 lines is the wireless part of the connection, from my house to town. Line 9 is the ADSL in town, I have seen it in another gamer who stays in town's WinMTR test awhile ago, although he is with another ISP and not wireless. After that I am not sure about how the patch goes, except that the loss is totally unacceptable. But there is loss just before the line goes on the ADSL line as well, at line 8.

So can someone please explain (in very easy to understand language, preferably with hand puppets) what the story with the connection is. I would appreciate it very much. Maybe I can then start to solve my BF3 frustrations.

Another thing, each of the IPs in the wireless part is fixed, I always see the same numbers. However, my service provider pulled some other IPs from somewhere, claiming that they were mine. Is it possible to access the wireless network from another place and see different IPs?

BTW answering this post might be worth 200 Karma points.