Have you ever done a tracert on your internet connection? I've done it and found that I was passing by Japan to send a message from Montreal to Glasgow.
Tracing route to otcentral.com [64.5.44.31]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 180 ms 180 ms 171 ms Montreal-ppp-89450.qc.sympatico.ca [64.228.175.241]
2 210 ms 181 ms 160 ms HSE-MTL-ppp24883.qc.sympatico.ca [209.226.208.1]
3 201 ms 160 ms 160 ms core1-montrealak-pos12-1.in.bellnexxia.net [64.230.240.25]
4 170 ms 171 ms 160 ms bx1-montrealak-pos1-0.in.bellnexxia.net [64.230.240.50]
5 201 ms 160 ms 160 ms if-1-0.core1.Montreal.Teleglobe.net [207.45.204.1]
6 200 ms 170 ms 170 ms if-2-0.core2.NewYork.Teleglobe.net [64.86.83.226]
7 210 ms 180 ms 181 ms if-4-0.bb8.NewYork.Teleglobe.net [66.110.8.130]
8 221 ms 190 ms 170 ms ix-8-0-1.bb8.NewYork.Teleglobe.net [207.45.198.74]
9 210 ms 170 ms 170 ms 0.so-6-1-0.XL1.NYC9.ALTER.NET [152.63.22.226]
10 200 ms 160 ms 171 ms 0.so-4-0-0.TL1.NYC9.ALTER.NET [152.63.0.173]
11 251 ms 250 ms 230 ms 0.so-4-0-0.TL1.DFW9.ALTER.NET [152.63.0.181]
12 270 ms 241 ms 250 ms 0.so-7-0-0.XL1.DFW13.ALTER.NET [152.63.103.218]
13 281 ms 250 ms 251 ms 0.so-6-0-0.GW3.DFW13.ALTER.NET [152.63.100.73]
14 290 ms 241 ms 240 ms planet-gw.customer.alter.net [157.130.153.62]
15 280 ms 261 ms 250 ms car1-1-v1.dllstx2.theplanet.com [12.96.160.11]
16 290 ms 261 ms 250 ms 64.5.44.31