I am also on TPG, but i am in Victoria.
Manually pinging any of the servers (or the data centers), Japan or Canada ones, yields roughly what would be expected - 250 or so ping. And running a trace also gives the exact same information. Arrives at the destination with about 250-300 ping.
I had a look at that and was surprised when it attempted to install spyware and malware onto my computer. Suffice to say that has now been blacklisted.
