No email either (using gmail) - didn't try to log in, maybe I'll give that a shot. What's the worst that could happen? We all die? Probably not. I'll update tonight.
Still no email, although I was able to log in. It did cut the number of hops to 2fort by almost 1/2 (7 vs. 15) but my ping went up. I get very little packet loss to eGO servers with pings from 32-58 so it might not help me much. Although if for some bizarre reason I wanted to play on some east coast servers it might help.