Firstly I'm with Zen and on FTTP. I did a couple of Traceroute queries using my ASUS RT-AC88U network tools as follows. Whilst I don't pretend to know much about it, it would seem that the first address I see is London. This I find strange as I live in Glasgow. Any thoughts or is this just the way Zen works? Should the first hop be closer? And if closer what would it improve?
traceroute to google.com (216.58.212.206), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 vt1.cor1.lond1.ptn.zen.net.uk (51.148.72.21) 18.464 ms 16.225 ms 16.258 ms
2 ae-3.pe2.thn-lon.zen.net.uk (51.148.73.12) 17.880 ms 17.208 ms 16.532 ms
3 ae-2.br1.thn-lon.zen.net.uk (51.148.73.117) 16.536 ms 16.891 ms 16.699 ms
4 72.14.223.28 (72.14.223.28) 14.632 ms 16.758 ms *
9 * * 5 * * *
6 ams16s21-in-f206.1e100.net (216.58.212.206) 16.053 ms 172.253.68.22 (172.253.68.22) 16.811 ms 216.239.58.220 (216.239.58.220) 16.125 ms
traceroute to
www.facebook.com (157.240.1.35), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 vt1.cor1.lond1.ptn.zen.net.uk (51.148.72.21) 17.902 ms 16.245 ms 16.430 ms
2 ae-3.pe2.thn-lon.zen.net.uk (51.148.73.12) 16.772 ms 16.509 ms 16.529 ms
3 ae-2.br1.thn-lon.zen.net.uk (51.148.73.117) 16.844 ms 16.793 ms 16.807 ms
4 195.66.239.19 (195.66.239.19) 26.933 ms 37.474 ms 50.433 ms
5 po162.asw02.lhr3.tfbnw.net (129.134.44.210) 16.911 ms 16.868 ms po152.asw01.lhr6.tfbnw.net (129.134.44.198) 20.553 ms
6 po241.psw04.lhr6.tfbnw.net (157.240.40.147) 16.819 ms po563.psw01.lhr6.tfbnw.net (129.134.44.229) 17.076 ms po242.psw03.lhr6.tfbnw.net (157.240.40.143) 17.352 ms
7 157.240.38.87 (157.240.38.87) 16.859 ms 173.252.67.135 (173.252.67.135) 17.616 ms 173.252.67.137 (173.252.67.137) 16.813 ms
8 edge-star-mini-shv-01-lht6.facebook.com (157.240.1.35) 17.451 ms 17.297 ms 16.722 ms