Southern Hemisphere lag issues

[kram]

Hi Devs,

Tonight I ran a Titan EX for the first time, only to find that my latency was stuck at s:0 r:2800+ for a majority of each attempt, and by this point I was already dead.

After discussing it with the party (who were wondering why I kept getting hit with all five weights of the earth despite my best efforts) it came out that there is an issue with ALL Australians and players in the southern hemisphere in regards to lag. It was further discussed that this issue has existed since 2.1, which sounds to me like a problem intentionally left alone.

Is this true, and more importantly, what is being done to ease it? I know lag is an issue for all real-time online games, but this is way beyond a joke.

Wow I can't believe this problem exists since 2.1
Also have the same problem now, I didn't experienced this problem before. My problem started 1st week of August until now. Last June-July my connection was very good, but now wtf!

And FYI I already contacted SE and they said "go to portforward.com" to solve the issue.
BEFORE I don't need to forward ports to play smoothly. But now, why?
By the way, you need to pay for this portforward.com thing

The problem now is I don't have access to our routers because it is a restricted area in our compound.