my ping was 100-125ms in the first few weeks of its inception, but now its 255ms (50-60ms higher than the us server :O) even after restarting my router. I did a tracert.

Tracing route to 119.81.28.240-static.reverse.softlayer.com [119.81.28.240]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms dsldevice.domain.name [192.168.1.1]
2 24 ms 23 ms 24 ms 115.147.64.1
3 28 ms 22 ms 29 ms 124.217.124.165
4 25 ms 22 ms 27 ms 124.217.126.153
5 22 ms 21 ms 23 ms 124.217.126.162
6 24 ms 24 ms 24 ms 202.138.144.221
7 25 ms 25 ms 24 ms 202.138.145.237
8 29 ms 27 ms 28 ms 202.138.145.242
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 186 ms 188 ms 186 ms GigE1-2.IG2.LAX7.ALTER.NET [63.114.62.197]
12 * 187 ms 187 ms 0.xe-1-0-1.XT2.LAX7.ALTER.NET [152.63.118.38]
13 186 ms 185 ms 185 ms 0.xe-11-0-0.BR1.LAX15.ALTER.NET [152.63.115.94]

14 188 ms 187 ms 188 ms ix-11-2-2-0.tcore1.lvw-losangeles.as6453.net [64
.86.252.97]
15 253 ms 256 ms 250 ms if-2-2.tcore2.lvw-losangeles.as6453.net [66.110.
59.2]
16 238 ms 239 ms 238 ms if-7-2.tcore2.SVW-Singapore.as6453.net [180.87.1
5.25]
17 242 ms 250 ms 250 ms vlan1807.icore1.svq-singapore.as6453.net [120.29
.215.29]
18 242 ms 243 ms 241 ms ae12.bbr01.eq01.sng02.networklayer.com [120.29.2
15.102]
19 241 ms 242 ms 241 ms ae5.dar02.sr03.sng01.networklayer.com [50.97.18.
199]
20 241 ms 243 ms 242 ms po2.fcr01.sr03.sng01.networklayer.com [174.133.1
18.133]
21 242 ms 242 ms 242 ms 119.81.28.240-static.reverse.softlayer.com [119.
81.28.240]

Trace complete.