Why do I lag so much?

[EoinCuinn]

I am in Australia, running on the EU servers at about 335ms, but with a constant frame rate of between 40- 55 fps, on both my laptop and my desktop. My desktop is pretty specced, but I still run the game at Very High quality, with the shadowing turned down slightly. As it says in the game, if you run at extreme settings you better have the hardware to match it.

768mg 8800gtx
3g core2 duo (6850 from memory)
4g ram running at 1066
Vista Ultimate
32mg caches SataII drives