That's interesting, mind expanding on your problems?

I know that as a BT (uk) ISP customer mostly I can ping google.com and it returns in 6ms from a BT IP, which would indicate they're using GGC. Sometimes it resolves to a Google IP in 12 ms.

Last month however it started resolving all the way to Amsterdam and subsequently to the US with a corresponding increase in ping time. Was this their way of saving energy by shutting down DCs, or was it a bigger problem like capacity or an outage? Either way despite the latency issues the fact it always works in a plus for their infrastructure team.