I checked to see what ping i get using the task manager and here is an example...

http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/1962/e9o0.jpg

Average from UK to Datacenter is 150-250, i feel this is a bit too high for EU to handle especially with a lot of reaction based battles, prob never goign to get an EU datacenter but the devs need to see and sort this because even the LOTRO servers are all in the US and i get 105 ping to there.