Anyone noticing Google services, e.g. search and gmail a bit slow on Spark today? 

Usually google services are delivered out of Australia, or did, however today today seems to be coming from USA with a bit of packet loss

Using Spark DNS:

--- www.google.co.nz ping statistics ---
97 packets transmitted, 80 packets received, 17.5% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 199.227/221.543/926.836/96.553 ms

--- googlemail.l.google.com ping statistics ---
63 packets transmitted, 52 packets received, 17.5% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 168.468/169.886/199.307/4.154 ms

Changing to Google DNS and browsing speeds and pings are better:

--- www.google.co.nz ping statistics ---
48 packets transmitted, 48 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 14.982/15.800/18.221/0.557 ms

--- googlemail.l.google.com ping statistics ---
39 packets transmitted, 39 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 39.357/39.882/40.979/0.391 ms