Interesting. This is happening to a lot of eastern shard players as well. I mainly play GL, and some Atlantic. Ironically, I can play western shards with pings only a bit higher than my normal shard ping. For me, the problem is on EA's end at the third to last hop, which is an EA subserver. Ever since SA came out, that Washington, D.C., subservor has been going bonkers...I went from 62-78ms all the way up to 156-172ms. This starts around 1 or 2 in the afternoon until midnight. There did seem to be a fix a week or so ago that got it back down, but it looks like it crapped out again, and EA couldn't care less about it. Typical. Don't you love paying for a game you can't even play? Nice.