My pings to Europe has become terrible, they used to be 200ish but now there are in the 400's. To compare lets see WA vs SAIX:
Tracing route to bbc.co.uk [212.58.241.131]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 34 ms 21 ms 20 ms wblv-ip-esr-3.ipnet.wa.co.za [41.185.83.1]
2 28 ms 28 ms 29 ms wnls-ipc1-vl-105.wa.co.za [196.220.59.250]
3 38 ms 29 ms 29 ms wnls-cr1-vl-801.wa.co.za [41.185.0.67]
4 51 ms 25 ms 27 ms 41-66-150-41-29.WC-RO-DCE-1-to-WEB001-CPE.africa
inx.net [41.66.150.41]
5 177 ms 206 ms 204 ms CORE_GB-LD-GS-MEC-1_TO_GB-LD-GS-MSC-1_AINX_P2P__
1G_gb [41.84.12.141]
6 205 ms 171 ms 218 ms 195.50.122.217
7 206 ms 253 ms 176 ms ae-24-52.car3.London1.Level3.net [4.69.139.100]
8 181 ms 177 ms 181 ms 195.50.90.162
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 213 ms 174 ms 178 ms 132.185.255.130
12 177 ms 181 ms 178 ms 212.58.241.131
Tracing route to bbc.co.uk [212.58.241.131]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 244 ms 27 ms 19 ms dsl-240-220-01.telkomadsl.co.za [41.240.220.1]
2 91 ms 22 ms 32 ms wblv-ip-cat-1-vlan-913.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.4
3.35.38]
3 24 ms 22 ms 30 ms wblv-ip-esr-3-gig-6-1-0-914.telkom-ipnet.co.za [
196.43.35.33]
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 50 ms 46 ms 49 ms 196.43.10.130
6 69 ms 47 ms 50 ms rrba-ip-lir-1-gig-2-0-0-201.telkom-ipnet.co.za [
196.43.33.5]
7 236 ms 236 ms 229 ms lon-ip-dir-telecity-gig-4-0-1025.telkom-ipnet.co
.za [196.43.18.121]
8 418 ms 405 ms 395 ms 93-126-245-83.packetexchange.net [83.245.126.93]
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 401 ms 415 ms 430 ms ae1.er01.rbsov.bbc.co.uk [132.185.254.46]
11 398 ms 384 ms 380 ms 132.185.255.134
12 424 ms 438 ms 448 ms 212.58.241.131