My connection is supposed to be a 20/2 - I guess it would be to much to ask to actually deliver it... Grrr... But I digress - my local ping:



When I try a randomly chosen UK server it doesn't really seem to affect my ping - it still looks reasonable:



I don't really buy the whole National Security Filter theory. My guess is the wildly differing ping times has more to do with interconnects between the different ISPs than any Echelon style government conspiracy.