BF4 Sudden high ping problem on all my normally good servers. No PC changes.

If you run a tracert to EA servers, you may find the same problem I did. EA is pushing traffic through a DDoS protection company and it is adding 80ms to my ping time, making EA multiplayer games worthless for me. EA refuses to acknowledge the problem or do any other analysis other than to tell everyone to do the most basic network troubleshooting and to stop replying when that doesn't work. Here is my tracert that clearly shows the problem.

Tracing route to easo.ea.com [159.153.234.54]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  10.0.0.1
  2     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  myrouter.home [192.168.1.1]
  3     7 ms     7 ms     7 ms  L100.TAMPFL-VFTTP-150.verizon-gni.net [71.100.133.1]
  4     9 ms     7 ms     9 ms  G101-0-0-34.TAMPFL-LCR-22.verizon-gni.net [100.41.221.126]
  5     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  6    13 ms    12 ms    11 ms  0.ae4.BR1.MIA19.ALTER.NET [140.222.225.113]
  7    52 ms    54 ms    55 ms  204.255.168.10
  8    55 ms    52 ms    54 ms  if-7-2.tcore1.AEQ-Ashburn.as6453.net [66.198.154.177]
  9    40 ms    39 ms    39 ms  66.198.154.66
 10    41 ms    42 ms    41 ms  unknown.prolexic.com [209.200.144.41]
 11     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 12   112 ms   112 ms   112 ms  unknown.prolexic.com [72.52.44.218]
 13   113 ms   114 ms   117 ms  159.153.93.2
 14   113 ms   112 ms   114 ms  159.153.225.30
 15   114 ms   114 ms   112 ms  meav5-pub.pt.iad.ea.com [159.153.226.105]
 16   113 ms   112 ms   114 ms  easo.ea.com [159.153.234.54]

Trace complete.

Take special note of this section and reference who that company is and the issue becomes obvious:

 10    41 ms    42 ms    41 ms  unknown.prolexic.com [209.200.144.41]
 11     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 12   112 ms   112 ms   112 ms  unknown.prolexic.com [72.52.44.218]