IP / Traceroute through Luton
I'm located near county Durham so having my data routed through Luton is confusing to me, IP also shows there too (not much of issue as BT gave me far away IP's before). I've seen a post or 2 without any resolve about using a local node instead of one so far away. Now ping is between 11-14, not bad at all, but with it being on their new XGS-PON network (NextFibre), I was expecting between 5-10ms, especially as my old GFast connection was a stable 12ms Speed tests to "local" locations - Newcastle / York / Manchester give a higher ping. 17-20ms on various servers for each. This indicates to me its hitting Luton then back up north again, then to me, but I could be wrong. New install today, Hub 5x of course being on XGS-PON So why is it i'm routed through Luton and could this be why the ping is higher than I expected? Also is there a way to have my WAN IP change to be more local (I've seen this mentioned) Traceroute example through 1.1.1.1 DNS (Cloudflare) [MOD EDIT: Images containing private information removed]