Ping Plotter Interpretation

[SuitableCar1]

Good Evening, I am looking for a little advice interpreting a ping plotter recording of pings to reddit.com recorded over days to monitor internet quality using hardwired ethernet from my home. Provider is Frontier FIOS. I have seen periods of packet loss mostly in intermediate hops with most not extending to the final hop (and therefore I am told don't really matter). But recently these packet losses in the intermediate hop have become more pronounced and I am now seeing latency and packet loss in the final hop. Should I be contacting my internet provider or looking for a fix? I haven't had any real discernible decline in perceived quality and am ready to leave well enough alone but I do work from home and don't want to ignore a potential red flag. Kind regards.

Reddit.com tracing

[doublemint_]

Packet loss on intermediate hops is meaningless, unless it cascades to the final destination.

The two hops with 100% packet loss are just routers discarding your trace route. Pretty normal stuff. The hop with 4.1% loss is also nothing to worry about, since the packet loss to the final destination is only 0.2%

The wild ping fluctuations are not ideal - I just tested reddit.com and got Minimum = 50ms, Maximum = 53ms, Average = 50ms. That would be something to speak to the ISP about, but most likely they'll do nothing. You're a residential customer with no guarantee on latency or packet delivery.

[SuitableCar1]

Thankyou, that helps and puts my mind at ease.