I have the habit of ending up on a cross country server quite often in MMOs and it doesn't typically bother me personally. It depends on how much of a stickler you are. I bought a DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem and considered buying a Killer NIC and I live with myself just fine being in TX and on an east cost server. I think the west cost servers are just 100 miles away from me too... oh well.