ditto...
Btw. I'm in Germany, lag increased around 17:30 Local time and now (1815L) it has failed alltogether. That's the time when many people return from work and fire up the game here.
Being P2P, I'd assume I'm using local (regional) nodes to log in and network from.
Would be interesting to know if that's indeed the result a regional surge of Players logging in or a general issue.