I have an ongoing case with Verizon Executive relations about problems with ping spikes/jitter for about 2 weeks now and the same issues as described in this post. https://imgur.com/a/FZzT4rG https://imgur.com/a/4pAtZXd These are logs for 6 and 24 hours a week and a half ago. This sort of jitter is abnormal correct RiotKorensky? It seems alter.net and Verizon-gni.net are both owned by Verizon
Yes - hop 1 there is bad. You will probably hear them tell stories about how ICMP is de-prioritized but this looks like congestion or over-subscription on your access segment / last mile, assuming that the first hop you are seeing here is the PON ONU. They should be inspecting counters on your OLT for errors as part of triage here to make sure there's nothing specific to your drop that may be the cause.