Quake3World

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone knew if it was possible to control/bypass certain hops in a connection to a server.
Since changing my internet provider, I am now pinging around 130 to my favorite server.
I have done a trace and the problem seems to star when it reaches on address on the main servers network.
So I was hoping I could prevent that being used, either by a firewall or other means?
Thanks

Proxy's would be the only way that i would know to change the Hop's...

but usually when you use a proxy, the ping times go up anyway. So...