Raist - nice post.

I live in Australia (with the major ISP provider in the country - Telstra) and have bad lag pretty well all the time. Just changing jobs can be a few seconds delay.

I play on PS3 but how do i find out what IP address to ping from my Ps3 (I assume i can do that via internet on PS3) to work out what is happening.

I have actually made a complaint with my ISP...but who knows if that will get anywhere. In addition I find that most nights the NA/EU servers have a better connection that Japan when i am a lot closer to Japan.