There's a definite problem near you. Here's a traceroute from my house to what I think may be your eternal I.P.
slodave@ns1:~$ traceroute 24.217.2.161
traceroute to 24.217.2.161 (24.217.2.161), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) 0.611 ms 0.490 ms 0.393 ms
2 adsl-68-127-45-213.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net (68.127.45.213) 9.593 ms 11.630 ms 9.914 ms
3 dist3-vlan50.irvnca.sbcglobal.net (67.114.50.1) 9.908 ms 9.145 ms 9.952 ms
4 bb1-g10-0.irvnca.sbcglobal.net (151.164.92.194) 64.978 ms 14.104 ms 9.965 ms
5 ex2-p14-0.eqlaca.sbcglobal.net (151.164.243.170) 9.967 ms 9.100 ms 9.954 ms
6 151.164.248.218 (151.164.248.218) 10.038 ms 9.332 ms 9.920 ms
7 cer-core-01.inet.qwest.net (67.14.8.210) 72.518 ms 71.599 ms cer-core-02.inet.qwest.net (67.14.8.214) 69.975 ms
8 205.171.139.30 (205.171.139.30) 69.160 ms 69.375 ms 69.980 ms
9 208.44.154.174 (208.44.154.174) 77.502 ms 76.859 ms 77.449 ms
10 24-217-58-146.dhcp.stls.mo.charter.com (24.217.58.146) 77.501 ms 79.021 ms 79.977 ms
11 24.217.3.9 (24.217.3.9) 215.073 ms * *
The x's are where my I.P. would be. You can see what happens at hop 11. I have one this repeatedly and it always times out once or twice. BTW 4 '*' means that that hop (router) is unreachable.
Go to
www.whatismyip.com and then PM me the I.P. addy.