I had a 384 line, the minute i jumped to a 4mb line, things became playable, even when the patch came out..it did'nt help with my 384 line, it did allow me to play but i had to wait atleast 2 minutes in the begining of a game before my ping dropped down from 999 (and no i was not with telkom, i was using IS bandwith), the general trend that i have noticed is that in the first few minutes ppl with 384 lines sit on 999 ping, this says to me that its infact the game as explained in Nic's article(live stat streaming), it makes a huge amount of sense since 384 lines have a poor upload speed..hopefully with a patch ppl who have 384 lines can play lag free also, i noticed also that ppl with 512 lines don't seem to have this issue...ie they have a fair upload speed, either 384 lines can't handle the game(unlinkley) or the game itself requires adjustment ie a patch