Your (geo) location in relation to the p1999 servers as well as the number / quality of hops you're crossing to reach them makes a huge difference. As a comparison, here's what mine looks like from running the client on my laptop (wired) at a datacenter (so few hops to the big pipes) in Virginia:
Note that I'm also in EFP with only 4 other players so it's pretty quiet.
-Mcoy
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