That only was an issue with services provided by warner or comcast. I did have a ping of 340 prior as the servers were in montreal, but I did have 75% packet loss at any certain time, some days mostly on weekends, I couldn't stay connected for longer than 3 seconds, or would experience a lot of freezing etc. It was so bad, that when playing a tank, I would literally run through the mobs and flash wouldn't even do a thing, everything flew past me and on top of the healer. When playing healer, I could cast any cure/physick and it wouldn't register at all or 3 minutes later, causing wipes and killing tanks on the way. I did have to stop playing both, and start playing dps, but that wasn't better. I constantly couldn't finish a rotation, half way through I would dc or lag myself to death.

Now with the server move, I have a ping of 18-23 but most importantly I have no packet loss anymore, switching my provider and not going with comcast did help immensely as well. However I did pay in the past for VPN just like you guys do right now, therefore for me I welcome the server move. But unless the OP is with these kind of providers, I doubt that it's still going through level3, unless OP is from S.America or trying to connect from overseas.