Originally Posted by AmAtoL

You seem to be falling into the trap that homealone is already snagged on.
I, and certainly all other gamers on here would class a ping of 100 to be useless to a UK server. That somebody can ping 100 to a West Coast US server is totally irrelevant. If you have followed these game related topics which I suspect you have then you will know packet loss is of far greater concern to us. If I normally ping 20 to a UK server and that suddenly jumps to 100+ it is a fairly good way of telling me that something is wrong with the network. I see players with the Uni connections and invariably they have the most kills, not because of a stupidly low ping, but because the quality of connection is rock solid. I play with people from all over Europe, as far as Russia, and they manage perfectly well with pings in the 70 - 80 region because of the quality of connection.
To say that my experience is perfect because I sometimes have a final hop of 16 ish is patently not the case.
Like I have said unless you actually play under those conditions then you will never have a clue how bad it is.