Softlayer routing issues

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Routing from east coast Australia to Softlayer... via Perth? (Wrong side of the country!)

traceroute to softlayer.com (66.228.119.72), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)  0.316 ms  0.300 ms  1.897 ms
 2  gw101.cha24.brisbane.telstra.net (203.45.253.1)  3.279 ms  3.462 ms  3.583 ms
 3  tengige0-8-0-2.woo-core1.brisbane.telstra.net (203.50.51.129)  12.150 ms  12.159 ms  12.197 ms
 4  bundle-ether11.chw-core10.sydney.telstra.net (203.50.11.70)  17.636 ms  18.027 ms  18.152 ms
 5  bundle-ether8.exi-core10.melbourne.telstra.net (203.50.11.125)  36.428 ms  36.436 ms  36.434 ms
 6  bundle-ether5.way-core4.adelaide.telstra.net (203.50.11.92)  45.297 ms  58.743 ms  59.433 ms
 7  bundle-ether5.pie-core1.perth.telstra.net (203.50.11.17)  86.472 ms  86.906 ms  86.907 ms
 8  tengige0-5-1-0.pthp-core01.perth.net.reach.com (203.50.13.254)  85.046 ms  85.185 ms  85.752 ms
 9  202.84.143.181 (202.84.143.181)  135.627 ms  135.624 ms  135.621 ms
10  202.84.243.2 (202.84.243.2)  134.186 ms 202.84.243.110 (202.84.243.110)  134.132 ms 202.84.243.2 (202.84.243.2)  134.311 ms
11  202.84.225.249 (202.84.225.249)  135.086 ms  135.344 ms  135.473 ms
12  202.126.191.30 (202.126.191.30)  196.306 ms  180.261 ms  182.746 ms
13  * * *
14  * * *
15  * * *
16  202.55.27.46 (202.55.27.46)  233.666 ms  233.809 ms  234.234 ms
17  * * ae2.bbr02.eq01.sjc02.networklayer.com (50.97.18.160)  307.322 ms
18  * ae0.bbr02.cs01.lax01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.151)  310.539 ms  312.006 ms
19  ae7.bbr01.cs01.lax01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.166)  317.715 ms *  303.707 ms
20  ae19.bbr01.eq01.dal03.networklayer.com (173.192.18.140)  332.730 ms  326.526 ms  328.020 ms
21  ae0.dar01.sr01.dal01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.211)  335.286 ms * ae0.dar02.sr01.dal01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.253)  340.666 ms
22  po1.slr01.sr01.dal01.networklayer.com (66.228.118.138)  337.004 ms  331.984 ms po2.slr01.sr01.dal01.networklayer.com (66.228.118.142)  333.871 ms
23  softlayer.com (66.228.119.72)  343.172 ms  328.308 ms *



Routing from east coast Australia to Softlayer.... via China?


1.|-- 192.168.1.254                               0.0%   100    0.9   1.1   0.9   1.9   0.0
2.|-- lo0.bng1.bne1.on.ii.net                     0.0%   100   13.6  13.5  12.6  24.9   1.4
3.|-- ae7.cr1.bne7.on.ii.net                      0.0%   100   12.7  13.7  12.5  28.4   2.2
4.|-- ae1.br1.syd7.on.ii.net                      0.0%   100  189.4 153.3 138.9 314.9  24.2
5.|-- ae0.br1.syd4.on.ii.net                      0.0%   100   34.8  42.3  27.1 125.9  20.9
6.|-- te0-0-0-0.br1.hkg2.on.ii.net                0.0%   100  140.9 140.2 139.3 152.9   1.6
7.|-- btn5-10g.hkix.net                           1.0%   100  142.7 142.0 140.6 151.6   1.2
8.|-- tenge2-8.br01.hkg15.pccwbtn.net             0.0%   100  162.8 164.3 162.0 283.2  12.3
9.|-- china.telcom.vlan85.br01.hkg15.pccwbtn.net  0.0%   100  140.3 147.1 140.0 246.7  19.8
10.|-- ???                                        100.0   100    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
11.|-- 202.55.27.46                               17.0%   100  157.3 158.3 157.1 176.1   2.3
12.|-- ae2.bbr02.eq01.sjc02.networklayer.com      19.0%   100  230.3 230.8 229.4 260.8   3.5
13.|-- ae0.bbr02.cs01.lax01.networklayer.com      26.0%   100  260.8 261.7 260.5 271.3   1.7
14.|-- ae7.bbr01.cs01.lax01.networklayer.com      21.0%   100  231.5 232.4 231.3 244.6   2.1
15.|-- ae19.bbr01.eq01.dal03.networklayer.com     27.0%   100  262.2 262.7 261.8 275.4   1.7
16.|-- ae0.dar01.sr01.dal01.networklayer.com      19.0%   100  262.4 262.7 261.5 278.3   2.3
17.|-- po1.fcr04.sr05.dal01.networklayer.com      19.0%   100  262.1 265.1 262.0 357.1  11.5
18.|-- omegaforums.net                            17.0%   100  264.8 270.1 264.3 298.4  11.2