ill take your word on it man like i said that was just a theory i had as a possibility considering your a network technician im sure you have a greater grasp of the subject then myyself. (dont mean this in any sarcastic way) i do know though that the servers operate on some sort of cluster system based upon your ip so maybe that could have something to do with that but, like i said my knowledge of general latency is limited to about 10 hours of research on modem/router issues, static ip's, port forwarding and the such. anything beside that is 50 meters over my head.