Internet/pinging really slow on ubuntu

Internet/pinging really slow on ubuntu I think something happened to my ubuntu machine and now going to websites and/or pinging a website is extremely slow. I am hardwired to my router so it should be pretty fast.
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"To be honest, 8 ms to get a reply from a site like yahoo, doesn't strike me as particularly slow. The same ping (I'm at this moment 3 rooms away from my wireless router takes about 27 ms - 1/3 as fast. But if you think you have a problem, try traceroute. It will tell you all the machines your packets pass though and where the bottlenecks are.

Install with sudo apt-get install traceroute and run as:

traceroute www-real.wa1.b.yahoo.com

From my machine, which I consider typical, if not lightning quick or anything:

traceroute to www-real.wa1.b.yahoo.com (209.131.36.158), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1) 6.019 ms 6.204 ms 6.499 ms
2 bras8-l0.sndgca.sbcglobal.net (151.164.184.155) 27.740 ms 28.296 ms 28.719 ms
3 dist1-vlan50.sndg02.pbi.net (63.200.206.130) 29.193 ms 30.490 ms 32.398 ms
4 151.164.94.2 (151.164.94.2) 34.704 ms 37.106 ms 39.317 ms
5 ex1-p3-0.eqsjca.sbcglobal.net (70.245.63.230) 57.745 ms 60.350 ms 62.142 ms
6 asn10310-yahoo-10g.eqsjca.sbcglobal.net (151.164.248.58) 65.099 ms 25.918 ms 67.205 ms
7 ae0-p161.msr1.sp1.yahoo.com (216.115.107.59) 67.717 ms ae1-p171.msr2.sp1.yahoo.com (216.115.107.87) 68.103 ms ae0-p161.msr1.sp1.yahoo.com (216.115.107.59) 68.572 ms
8 te-8-1.bas-a1.sp1.yahoo.com (209.131.32.17) 68.973 ms 69.387 ms te-8-1.bas-a2.sp1.yahoo.com (209.131.32.19) 70.052 ms
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