It was something that was happening last night, many of the core routers on the last hops across the ntl network last night just pinged ~200 constantly, manchester, redbus, a level 3 router and everything after them was a mess.
If I was to guess, maybe part of the core was being worked on, shut down and people were routed over somewhere else; somebody else with me on a server lagged all of a sudden with me at the same time, from an area that is nowhere near me.
For instance now -
Tracing route to
www.jolt.co.uk [82.133.85.65]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 9 ms 8 ms 7 ms 10.249.148.1
3 11 ms 11 ms 9 ms nott-t2cam1-a-v129.inet.ntl.com [80.4.47.165]
4 22 ms 13 ms 11 ms nott-t2core-a-ge-wan72.inet.ntl.com [80.1.79.61]
5 17 ms 13 ms 13 ms lee-bb-a-so-200-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.188.33]
6 19 ms 18 ms 19 ms pop-bb-b-so-100-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.238]
7 23 ms 21 ms 20 ms tele-ic-2-so-700-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.184.6]
8 18 ms 17 ms 19 ms 212.250.14.42
9 19 ms 19 ms 17 ms ge-0-2-0.lon1-9.nildram.net [62.72.141.38]
10 18 ms 20 ms 18 ms jolt-gw.nildram.net [195.149.20.214]
11 19 ms 18 ms 19 ms secure.jolt.co.uk [82.133.85.65]
Trace complete.