Location: Lincoln, Arkansas, U.S.
Nearest Major City: Tulsa, Oklahoma, but I believe the node is located in Dallas, Tx.
So I let this run for about half an hour, I hope the info will be useful. Typically, my ping averages 138, my lag/loss fluctuates quite a bit. Most of the time it's at zero to 10%, but it has had severe spikes in the past, which I believe is an issue with my provider. I have actually been banned twice due to lag. If there is any more info you would like, just let me know. And once again, thank you @Alley for your dedication to our little community.
The last time I tried to play on GC (a couple days ago), I tried unsuccessfully to log onto two of my characters on different accounts and I gave up after three failed attempts, but at least I was able to see my accounts and I could choose which character I could try to log. I can't even get that far now. I posted No Servers Showing Up a little while ago. After a few minutes, the list of servers mysteriously returned, but I couldn't connect to the GC Server at all -- My account wouldn't come up, so I couldn't see which characters I have in that account.
My location: on a rural mountain in Virginia about 65-70 miles (ca. 105-110 km) west of Washington, DC.
My current ping: 127 which is low for me, as I usually have connected to GC many times at 150-160, so I shouldn't have any problems connecting at 127.
My attempt to use Win MTR resulted in the following error: "Unable to get raw socket!"
Edit: I have no idea why I can't connect to the GC Server when my ping is relatively low, nor do I understand why Win MTR didn't work.