Higher pings are not as important as "packet loss"
You can have a high ping of lets say 180
and packet loss of 2% or less
and can have a smoother game than a player
that has a low ping of 40 and packet loss of 10% or higher
The "ASE" All Seeing Eye game browser shows
ping and packet loss for all servers
It shows:
Ping - your ping to the individual game server
P/L - packet loss between you and the game server
Flux - this is just the percentage difference of players pings