east coast lol

Any chance i can play this game with less than 110 ping? or not have every fifth game so laggy that I cannot stay connected for more than 5 minutes, or get 500 ping lag spikes every time an enemy approaches? I am on cable modem and sitting right next to it, and I have worse connectivity to this game than I did to sc:bw back in 2001 on a 64k modem. doesn't seem right