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Its nothing to do with SE is it, check this trace from the feeback thread


Now I know it is only one but it breaks your thorey apart you will see yes it jumps when it gets to Japan to a min of 109ms, but then ir gets to SE's ISP and it jumps 100ms, then it gets to the on to SE's network and jumps to 683ms, i'm sure there will be more traces like this which show there is something at SE's end.

That's false, I took the tracert info you posted and checked up your path. You begin in Madrid Spain, get routed to America at hop 10, Vietnam at 16 and your first connection to Japan is at 17 with 289ms.
That's a pretty f***ed up path if you ask me, and if that doesn't bother you as a fellow EU player then all the more power to you.

Edit: Some corrections. If that is indeed your own test, but in either case it stands.