Seems widespread. I was playing games with two mates in the staes yesterday (im in Aust) and though i could connect to them fine and they to me, they could not connect to each other with anything under 705ping, and they are both Central USA and normally get about 70 ping.

Took us about 15 mins of rehosting and recconecting to get a playable ping, but then we suffered de-synchs the whole time till the game finally dropped.

I'd say there is some server issuses as they are setting up room for the demo.

Hopefully sorted out soon.

Wheres the reply from support??

Please people from support tell what the problem is, or at least that you are working on it.
When I don't proxy I have around 80~100 when connection get proxied ping is ~800.

Thanks in advance

WORKAROUND

If you normally don't connect to proxies you can have someone else in your game rehost. Once the game is hosted by someone else, you can join the game for a (possible) direct connection. As far as I can tell, rejoining does not always work.

This works for people who aren't the host but still have issues connecting to each other and don't usually require proxy connections.