Would have to agree with OP on that one Kermit....when you get wild ping its most likely your connection that is MOODY and not the server.I am on wireless at the moment and I watch my ping settle before trying to play and today it was swinging up and down from 14 to 15 hundred at first instance down to the 6 and 5 hundreds.I did not even bother going in until it settled around 3 hundred.....where it is playable.