Quote Originally Posted by cdq1958 View Post
Amsterdam isn't that far away from London and a major barrier would be the Channel, so I'd think that it would be a major link or hooked to a major link between London and, say, Belgium. Yep, follow the money works for that, too.
Since we don't know yet which path the packets will take and therefore not know which provider Turbine will be using it's hard to tell how high packet latency will be. A rough estimate is an additional ~70ms for the trip across the Atlantic Ocean.
Right now we in Germany experience packet latency of ~120 - 140ms (depending on type of connection and location) to the current game servers. So I guess that U.S. players can expect the same when they stick with a server that is relocated to Amsterdam.

Backbone providers usually offer maps of their network. Here is an example for Telia Sonera. They don't seem to have a direct connection from Amsterdam to the U.S.