snap are probably rerouting traffic via a different city. chch is about 15 msec ping from auckland, so if it goes auckland -> christchurch -> auckland then you'll get a ping increase of about 30 msec.
that's assuming you're in auckland or thereabouts. if you are significantly closer christchurch, i'd suggest a dlm change maybe from restarting router?
I assume that's a temporary fix to the outage problem? Yes, i'm in Auckland, i also noticed ping to Christchurch is actually lower than to Auckland, so probably its as you said.
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