High pings to Spark/Bigpipe IPs

I've just noticed that I seem to be getting quite high latency to some(?) Spark IPs:

Tracing route to 122-61-211-xxx-adsl.sparkbb.co.nz [122.61.211.xxx]over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 2 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 12.7.69.111.static.snap.net.nz [111.69.7.12] 3 18 ms 18 ms 18 ms 38.27.69.111.static.snap.net.nz [111.69.27.38] 4 151 ms 150 ms 150 ms 39.27.69.111.static.snap.net.nz [111.69.27.39] 5 153 ms 153 ms 155 ms ae9-42.akcr11.global-gateway.net.nz [122.56.127.33] 6 * * 151 ms mdr-ip24-dom.msc.global-gateway.net.nz [122.56.116.10] 7 170 ms 164 ms 165 ms 122-61-208-1-adsl.sparkbb.co.nz [122.61.208.1] 8 171 ms 171 ms 172 ms 122-61-211-xxx-adsl.sparkbb.co.nz [122.61.211.xxx]

That's going from Christchurch (2degrees 200/20 UFB) to Darfield (Bigpipe ADSL), but even if it's going the long way via Auckland its still rather high. Here's what it looks like going the other way:

traceroute to 151.210.219.xxx (151.210.219.xxx), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 125-239-11-1-adsl.sparkbb.co.nz (125.239.11.1) 10.081 ms 9.936 ms 10.908 ms 2 * * * 3 ae8-10.akbr6.global-gateway.net.nz (122.56.116.5) 24.274 ms 24.817 ms 24.730 ms 4 ae7-2.akbr7.global-gateway.net.nz (122.56.119.53) 24.649 ms 23.801 ms 24.166 ms 5 ae10-10.tkbr12.global-gateway.net.nz (202.50.232.29) 25.157 ms xe-7-0-3.sjbr3.global-gateway.net.nz (203.96.120.134) 149.604 ms xe7-0-8-10.sjbr3.global-gateway.net.nz (122.56.127.14) 149.204 ms 6 ae0.pabr5.global-gateway.net.nz (203.96.120.74) 149.207 ms 149.310 ms xe-0-0-7-3.sjbr3.global-gateway.net.nz (202.50.232.18) 149.311 ms 7 ae3-10.sjbr3.global-gateway.net.nz (122.56.127.25) 155.646 ms 153.093 ms 153.144 ms 8 ae0.pabr5.global-gateway.net.nz (203.96.120.74) 153.254 ms ae-15.r02.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.4.119) 155.006 ms ae0.pabr5.global-gateway.net.nz (203.96.120.74) 162.946 ms 9 ae-8.r06.plalca01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.203.41) 160.822 ms ae-2.a00.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.3.58) 150.010 ms ae-8.r06.plalca01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.203.41) 157.757 ms10 ae-2.a00.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.3.58) 150.410 ms xe-0-0-24-3.a00.snjsca04.us.ce.gin.ntt.net (129.250.200.102) 153.347 ms ae-15.r02.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.4.119) 160.546 ms11 ae-2.a00.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.3.58) 155.557 ms 155.833 ms *12 151.210.219.xxx (151.210.219.xxx) 171.133 ms 179.767 ms

I get a similar result to spark.co.nz itself:

Tracing route to spark.co.nz [146.171.248.36]over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 2 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 12.7.69.111.static.snap.net.nz [111.69.7.12] 3 26 ms 26 ms 25 ms 38.27.69.111.static.snap.net.nz [111.69.27.38] 4 151 ms 151 ms 150 ms 39.27.69.111.static.snap.net.nz [111.69.27.39] 5 153 ms 153 ms 160 ms ae9-42.akcr11.global-gateway.net.nz [122.56.127.33] 6 147 ms 146 ms 146 ms spark-sdn-ak1-dom.akcr11.global-gateway.net.nz [203.96.65.198] 7 * * * Request timed out. 8 * * * Request timed out. 9 * * * Request timed out.

I don't suppose anyone else is getting funky results to similar IPs - say from 2degrees to 122.61.211.xxx ? I'll likely throw their support an email either this evening or tomorrow, and some more tracerts wouldn't go amiss when I do so.