Really strange WiFi activity

Heres my results:

Mac:~ George$ ping 192.168.1.1
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1315.742 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=316.799 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=922.713 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=1476.553 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=1961.859 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 6
Request timeout for icmp_seq 7
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=3597.671 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=2597.628 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=617.355 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=64 time=889.307 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=10 ttl=64 time=2440.635 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=12 ttl=64 time=509.568 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=13 ttl=64 time=555.196 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 15
Request timeout for icmp_seq 16
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=15 ttl=64 time=2293.130 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=16 ttl=64 time=1374.360 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=17 ttl=64 time=374.776 ms



This has been happening a lot in the past week or two. No new electronics or the sort. I live in a house(so no neighbor interference) and am about 15 feet away from my router which is a Netgear WPN824v2.

It slows down the internet down to the point where nothing loads whatsoever, until the ping goes back to normal. The routers firmware is all up to date. This has only been happening recently (past month) with no router changes in over two years. I have the late 09 mbp.