Really?

[wash@FreeBSD-7 ~]$ ping www.gmail.com
PING googlemail.l.google.com (66.102.9.83): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 66.102.9.83: icmp_seq=0 ttl=241 time=238.812 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.9.83: icmp_seq=1 ttl=241 time=238.378 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.9.83: icmp_seq=2 ttl=241 time=240.488 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.9.83: icmp_seq=3 ttl=241 time=237.933 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.9.83: icmp_seq=4 ttl=241 time=248.070 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.9.83: icmp_seq=5 ttl=241 time=277.395 ms
^C
--- googlemail.l.google.com ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 6 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 237.933/246.846/277.395/14.088 ms



I cannot call that pathetic as I've never seen it before :-)
Used to be about 800ms.