This little Australian isn't about to chime in with his own stats till he gets home from work and runs some tests, but he can show you a tool he uses working for an ISP.

Check out www.speedtest.net

Use the map and run some tests to see how your fast your speeds and pings are to locations around the world. Compare them with others to indulge your curiosity. (And complain to your ISP if you are not getting your minimum guaranteed speeds when testing with the local and recommended server.)

As a side note, a test from my ISP office at work in Australia gave me a ping of 159ms when aiming for Nagoya. Pinging Tokyo gave me a latency test error. (!?!) That being said, I share this service with a lot of other call centre operators, so performance varies by various factors and I can't test in isolation. I'm going to run these tests again when I get home.