yea sounds like a bad route from poor isp.

For example mine goes to ATL and then enters the private network right there and then uses the private fiber line that goes direct to DC.

Code:
Tracing route to gg.ibisgaming.com [208.43.70.233]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  3     8 ms     9 ms     9 ms  xe-10-1-0-0-sur01.n1alpharetta.ga.atlanta.comcast.net [68.85.68.41]
  4    10 ms    16 ms    17 ms  xe-9-0-0-0-ar01.b0atlanta.ga.atlanta.comcast.net [68.86.106.166]
  5    21 ms    22 ms    15 ms  pos-3-5-0-0-cr01.atlanta.ga.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.93.125]
  6    13 ms    14 ms    15 ms  pos-0-11-0-0-pe01.56marietta.ga.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.88.186]
  7    18 ms    13 ms     *     xe-0-0-1.bbr01.tl01.atl01.networklayer.com [75.149.231.154]
  8    29 ms    26 ms    25 ms  ae0.bbr01.eq01.wdc02.networklayer.com [173.192.18.152]
  9    32 ms    30 ms    30 ms  ae0.dar01.sr01.wdc01.networklayer.com [173.192.18.197]
 10    26 ms    26 ms    28 ms  po1.fcr01.sr01.wdc01.networklayer.com [208.43.118.134]
 11    28 ms    32 ms    28 ms  208.43.70.233-static.reverse.softlayer.com [208.43.70.233]

Trace complete.