Originally Posted by
00Serval
If you're getting ~250ms ping to Tonberry from Perth, then your ISP is probably routing you to Sydney and then to Japan.
I'm in the South West of WA and get ~160ms pinging 124.150.157.30 and ~200ms to the server (measured with the resource monitor while ingame,) but I'm with Internode (who are apparently good with routing) or ~140ms-180ms while using Battleping to one of their servers in Japan (number 4.)
You could try making a character on any available JP server and testing your ping with the Windows resource monitor (opened from the bottom of the performance tab in Task Manager) while ingame, and compare that to what you get while using free trials of some of the tunneling services.