In reply to a post by Geordish:

The person who posted going straight onto Cogent posted a traceroute that originated from plusnet's network. Second hop is 217.118.16.162.

PlusServer... A german server provider.

Matt

PING 199.91.189.57 (199.91.189.57): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 199.91.189.57: seq=0 ttl=248 time=97.098 ms
64 bytes from 199.91.189.57: seq=1 ttl=248 time=93.628 ms
64 bytes from 199.91.189.57: seq=2 ttl=248 time=93.896 ms
64 bytes from 199.91.189.57: seq=3 ttl=248 time=93.621 ms
64 bytes from 199.91.189.57: seq=4 ttl=248 time=93.641 ms

--- 199.91.189.57 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 93.621/94.376/97.098 ms

traceroute to 199.91.189.57 (199.91.189.57), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 losubs.subs.dsl4.wh-man.zen.net.uk (62.3.83.6) 15.519 ms 40.452 ms 18.344 ms
2 no-dns-yet-62-3-86-9.zen.co.uk (62.3.86.9) 19.316 ms 15.633 ms 15.673 ms
3 ae2-117.man11.ip4.tinet.net (77.67.66.101) 15.644 ms 15.870 ms 31.194 ms
4 xe-0-0-0.mtl10.ip4.tinet.net (89.149.187.226) 92.909 ms 92.924 ms 92.903 ms
5 ormuco-gw.ip4.tinet.net (216.221.156.110) 93.466 ms 93.639 ms 93.197 ms
6 192.34.76.2 (192.34.76.2) 93.184 ms 93.392 ms 93.205 ms

Just did this this morning, based in the midlands.