I have noticed the last 2 days things have improved here in terms of speeds, also routing is more direct for instance I can now go over level3 in london without going upto manchester first.
1 39 ms 12 ms 7 ms 10.227.112.1
2 8 ms 10 ms 19 ms leic-t2cam1-b-ge914.inet.ntl.com [82.3.35.213]
3 13 ms 7 ms 8 ms leic-t2core-b-ge-210-0.inet.ntl.com [82.3.33.134]
4 13 ms 9 ms 10 ms nth-bb-b-so-230-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.188.114]
5 12 ms 11 ms 11 ms pop-bb-a-so-100-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.172.14]
6 12 ms 24 ms 14 ms 195.50.91.69
7 20 ms 11 ms 17 ms ge-11-1.ipcolo2.london1.level3.net [4.68.116.106]
8 12 ms 38 ms 11 ms 212.187.246.186
Germany and holland or parts of them have been bad for me for months in the evenings but again last night I was downloading from .nl at 600kB at 8pm.
Perhaps the old leicester routing has been moved over to a different region
