+1 for this server in the asia pacific region, hopefully the data centre you've chosen in asia is a lower ping for me here in Australia, uswest and to a lesser extent useast aren't so bad but eu is definitely not Australia friendly at 350ms+ (although some pools and internet sites dream of being as low as 350 haha).
The server is actually physically up, just not active for mining. You can test with a ping to see if its better (please anyone that tests that would normally use an asia server post results):
Saying it again, because some people don't read things unless its in bold and allcaps.
THIS IS NOT UP FOR MINING, ONLY TESTING FOR PING PURPOSESping sea.wafflepool.com
ouch 380ms, guess Australia's international connections to America are far superior than to Asia (which I already suspected).