Mine seems pretty good. It looks around 7ms on average to the BBC and I use Zen.
C:\Users\Andy>ping bbc.co.uk
Pinging bbc.co.uk [212.58.244.18] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 212.58.244.18: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.58.244.18: bytes=32 time=8ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.58.244.18: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.58.244.18: bytes=32 time=8ms TTL=56
Ping statistics for 212.58.244.18:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 7ms, Maximum = 8ms, Average = 7ms
C:\Users\Andy>
C:\Users\Andy>tracert bbc.co.uk
Tracing route to bbc.co.uk [212.58.244.18]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms fw01.router.home.local [10.10.1.1]
2 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms losubs.subs.dsl4.th-lon.zen.net.uk [62.3.84.19]
3 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms ge-2-1-0-119.cr2.th-lon.zen.net.uk [62.3.84.209]
4 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms ge-2-0-0-0.cr1.th-lon.zen.net.uk [62.3.80.41]
5 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms 82.71.254.134
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 10 ms 8 ms 7 ms ae0.er01.telhc.bbc.co.uk [132.185.254.109]
9 8 ms 7 ms 12 ms 132.185.255.149
10 8 ms 7 ms 8 ms fmt-vip72.telhc.bbc.co.uk [212.58.244.18]
Trace complete.
C:\Users\Andy>
C:\Users\Andy>ping bbc.co.uk
Pinging bbc.co.uk [212.58.244.18] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 212.58.244.18: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.58.244.18: bytes=32 time=8ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.58.244.18: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.58.244.18: bytes=32 time=8ms TTL=56
Ping statistics for 212.58.244.18:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 7ms, Maximum = 8ms, Average = 7ms
C:\Users\Andy>
C:\Users\Andy>tracert bbc.co.uk
Tracing route to bbc.co.uk [212.58.244.18]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms fw01.router.home.local [10.10.1.1]
2 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms losubs.subs.dsl4.th-lon.zen.net.uk [62.3.84.19]
3 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms ge-2-1-0-119.cr2.th-lon.zen.net.uk [62.3.84.209]
4 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms ge-2-0-0-0.cr1.th-lon.zen.net.uk [62.3.80.41]
5 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms 82.71.254.134
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 10 ms 8 ms 7 ms ae0.er01.telhc.bbc.co.uk [132.185.254.109]
9 8 ms 7 ms 12 ms 132.185.255.149
10 8 ms 7 ms 8 ms fmt-vip72.telhc.bbc.co.uk [212.58.244.18]
Trace complete.
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