Pings to the first hop have dropped back to what they were before, but some traffic still seems to be heading up and down the country before heading out to Australia.
Pings to this server were previously 35-40ms.

Tracing route to 203-217-24-163.hypernia.com [203.217.24.163]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms RT-N16 [192.168.2.1]
2 7 ms 7 ms 6 ms 16.17.69.111.static.snap.net.nz [111.69.17.16]
3 6 ms 6 ms 5 ms 54.32.69.111.dynamic.snap.net.nz [111.69.32.54]

4 * * * Request timed out.
5 25 ms 24 ms 24 ms 111-69-27-66.core.snap.net.nz [111.69.27.66]
6 25 ms 25 ms 25 ms 203.167.233.10
7 51 ms 49 ms 52 ms i-0-0-4-1.sydo-core02.bx.telstraglobal.net [202.84.142.149]
8 50 ms 49 ms 50 ms i-14-0-0.sydo04.bi.telstraglobal.net [202.84.223.2]
9 53 ms 51 ms 49 ms unknown.telstraglobal.net [134.159.126.46]
10 51 ms 50 ms 50 ms ae0.syd-mas-core1.iinet.net.au [203.215.20.111]

11 50 ms 50 ms 50 ms te1-4.syd-mas-bdr1.iinet.net.au [203.215.20.95]

12 50 ms 50 ms 52 ms 203.215.18.15
13 50 ms 58 ms 50 ms 203-217-24-163.hypernia.com [203.217.24.163]

Trace complete.