Is there any chance of getting a server up in Singapore or anywhere closer to Australia?
Singapore's load time is nearly 40-45% better than US's here, EU is even higher than US.
Here's a result from a node checker from another pool.
EU load time is undefined msec
US load time is 604 msec
CA load time is 607 msec
CN load time is 644 msec
SG load time is 385 msec
BR load time is 989 msec
There has been a server in Singapore several months ago but it wasn't very popular. I'm not sure if there's enough hashpower coming from this region to justify the cost and effort of running a server. I might do a one month trial sometime soon to check the demand.
That would be great if you do, I had to move away to another pool, the performance difference between pools was huge.