From UK and I have always played on the Primal Data Center. The ping isn't so much of the issue. It's the hope that your route to the server isn't abysmal and strewn with packet loss, which unfortunately mine is. I need to use a VPN to get around the troublesome nodes at this time. This wasn't the case during early SB launch, I actually went through all of HW and SB MSQ when SB launched with an immaculate connection. But a few weeks after that they had a patch that must have changed my route or something. It's been 9 months since my connection went rapidly down hill. Been a terrible experience since then. Only recently started using a VPN, but there's still other issues at play with SE client/server.

So like I said, ping hasn't been an issue for me. Just the errors and disconnects partially due to a bad route to servers and SEs client shenanigans. I miss Canada.