Mike,
Are you sat in a datacentre?!?
/jealous of your internet connection.
Here's something to make you jealous....
Code:
traceroute to www.google.com (74.125.230.146), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 XXXXXXXXXXX (XXXXXXXXXX) 0.315 ms 0.308 ms 0.275 ms
2 209.85.255.78 (209.85.255.78) 0.455 ms 0.405 ms 0.391 ms
3 209.85.251.202 (209.85.251.202) 0.770 ms 0.796 ms 0.760 ms
4 74.125.230.146 (74.125.230.146) 0.554 ms 0.569 ms 0.536 ms
And no, I don't work at Google.