First off I am a Briggs player, playing from Australia. Approximately 3 months ago (before Loginside started) I played on a Connery alt for a few weeks. At the time, my ping was fairly consistent, at just over 200ms. Cut to April, 2 months into Briggs Loginside and my base ping is now anywhere between 260 and 330ms in game. What happened? When I ping the Connery server IP through cmd, I get a consistent ping of 195 or 196ms, same as 3 months ago. Furthermore it periodically (basically several times a minute) jumps up to somewhere between 400 and 600ms. Combined with the resurging FPS issues, this makes the Connery server pretty much unplayable for me.
My icmp ping time to connery is about 170ms. It's all on SOEs end as speedtests to various west coast servers show it consistently in that range with sufficient bandwidth and no packet loss. Bad code, poor hardware, cheaping out on network bandwidth. Hit detection has been awful since the balance pass patch, even with regular ping levels.