> with ping times varying from 3211 to 6389 seconds. I guess this is a new record for ping times…

Hmm, T-mobile's network comes close, but not quite that high, I think. /s

Somewhat more seriously, I have seen ping times approaching 20,000 ms on their network. Given the light-distance to the moon is ~1.3 seconds, this ping clearly went significantly further than the moon's orbit, and back; very clearly some routes need tweaking.

That or one hop involved a somewhat speedier avian.