You are mistaking Ping with Latency.

Pinging is just a method of observing round trip Latency.

Since you don't (didn't) even know that, I cannot trust anything you have to say on the matter.

Raist and myself have exhausted ourselves trying to figure this out for ourselves and all of the evidence has pointed towards American corporate greed, and their unwillingness to properly neutralise and regulate the internet service as a utility domain.