I brought my older laptop over my parents’ house, who are only a short distance away. They have verizon, I have comcast. I ran a traceroute (but didn’t play the game) here is what I got.
Tracing route to 137.221.105.2 over a maximum of 30 hops
1 5 ms 2 ms 2 ms CR1000A.mynetworksettings.com [192.168.1.1]
2 6 ms 3 ms 3 ms lo0-100.PITBPA-VFTTP-306.verizon-gni.net [71.112.175.1]
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 4 ms 6 ms 12 ms 0.ae1.GW1.PIT8.ALTER.NET [140.222.8.79]
5 12 ms 39 ms 25 ms 4.68.68.81
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 17 ms 23 ms 22 ms BLIZZARD-EN.ear7.Chicago2.Level3.net [4.7.196.134]
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 59 ms 59 ms 62 ms et-0-0-0-pe03-swlv10.as57976.net [137.221.83.85]
11 * 60 ms 64 ms 137.221.105.2
Trace complete.
What this shows is that the connection is not going over to equinix (as57976 137.221.83.83) and instead going through the data centers in Chicago. 60ms is what I was getting when I lived with my parents. If your ISP is routing your traffic, your best bet is to complain and keep complaining until they fix it.