@armstrongmansIt's normal, you have to traverse the BT network before going anywhere else. Your nearest server would be a London one.
Here is my ping and tracert results to bbc.co.uk
Can someone please check and see if it all normal? FYI DNS is set to openDNS
C:\Users\****>ping bbc.co.uk
Pinging bbc.co.uk [2a04:4e42::81] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 2a04:4e42::81: time=17ms
Reply from 2a04:4e42::81: time=17ms
Reply from 2a04:4e42::81: time=17ms
Reply from 2a04:4e42::81: time=17ms
Ping statistics for 2a04:4e42::81:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 17ms, Maximum = 17ms, Average = 17ms
C:\Users\****>tracert bbc.co.uk
Tracing route to bbc.co.uk [2a04:4e42::81]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms broadband.bt.com [XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX::X]
2 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms XXXX:XXXX::XXXX:XXX:XXX
3 * 17 ms 17 ms 2a00:2302::XXXX:XXX:XX
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 * * 16 ms 2a00:2380:3014:9000::10
6 21 ms 17 ms 17 ms peer7-et3-0-5.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net [2a00:2380:14::8f]
7 18 ms 17 ms 17 ms 2a00:2380:2001:7000::1d
8 16 ms 18 ms 18 ms 2a04:4e42::81
Trace complete.
Nothing wrong with that trace.