I am on Community Fibre. Ping to google.com is ~2ms. With a VPN to the Midlands I get this:
PING
www.google.com (212.115.105.72): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 212.115.105.72: icmp_seq=0 ttl=61 time=11.470 ms
64 bytes from 212.115.105.72: icmp_seq=1 ttl=61 time=14.689 ms
64 bytes from 212.115.105.72: icmp_seq=2 ttl=61 time=10.908 ms
64 bytes from 212.115.105.72: icmp_seq=3 ttl=61 time=12.520 ms
64 bytes from 212.115.105.72: icmp_seq=4 ttl=61 time=11.268 ms
64 bytes from 212.115.105.72: icmp_seq=5 ttl=61 time=11.317 ms
64 bytes from 212.115.105.72: icmp_seq=6 ttl=61 time=11.017 ms
^C
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www.google.com ping statistics ---
7 packets transmitted, 7 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 10.908/11.884/14.689/1.245 ms
From Ireland:
PING
www.google.com (209.85.202.106): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 209.85.202.106: icmp_seq=0 ttl=58 time=15.566 ms
64 bytes from 209.85.202.106: icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=12.908 ms
64 bytes from 209.85.202.106: icmp_seq=2 ttl=58 time=15.975 ms
64 bytes from 209.85.202.106: icmp_seq=3 ttl=58 time=15.259 ms
64 bytes from 209.85.202.106: icmp_seq=4 ttl=58 time=17.400 ms
64 bytes from 209.85.202.106: icmp_seq=5 ttl=58 time=12.899 ms
64 bytes from 209.85.202.106: icmp_seq=6 ttl=58 time=15.760 ms
64 bytes from 209.85.202.106: icmp_seq=7 ttl=58 time=13.085 ms
64 bytes from 209.85.202.106: icmp_seq=8 ttl=58 time=15.925 ms
^C
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www.google.com ping statistics ---
9 packets transmitted, 9 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 12.899/14.975/17.400/1.527 ms