I have to totally disagree with fastbikkels statement "All pings here are over 200."
That just is not the case. I geta 40 ms ping to the HTC server and my buddy deez gets 20 ms. Because of the way aces high caculates hits (ie what they see is what they hit) I don't know if there is any clear advantage.
What you do gain from both poeple in a fight having a good ping is a more realistic dogfight. IF you connection is good you won't warp as much on his screen and he won't warp as much on yours. Deezcamp and I used to practice dogfighting each other all the time when he was on a 56k and he was always about half a second back on my screen from where he really was. This lead to situations where it looked like he HOed me but he had actually turned, but i never saw it because of his lag.
As for Seawulfes statement, no offense, but if you were doing well in Q3 or any FPS on line with a 56k , the other guys weren't very good. You can't even come close to competing nowadays in a FPS with out cable or better connection. It boils down to the way FPS handle the info. The guy that gets the kill is the guy whose information got to the server faster in FPS games. If 2 guys look at each other and both shoot at the same time but one has a 20ms connect and the other has a 200ms connect, they guy with the 20ms connect will get the kill. His info just gets to the server faster.