Whenever I create a soldat server, it appears impossible for me to get anyone to join it who's got a ping below 300. Comparing this to the fact that I can't find my own dedicated servers on ASE(without asking it to search for lan servers) leads me to the conclusion that all the guys who join my sever have found it through the lobby. Why?
And no, I'm not living out in nowhere, I can easily get reasonable pings when I join other servers.
I'm sitting on a 4 mbit connection.