same,
although, from the stream yesterday the CEO mentioned that the sub time doesn't start until you log in. Being in the queue isn't being logged in. It does tick down on the time for a steam refund though.
I'm in Tucson AZ (US) and get 185ms ping normally. My VPN routed to a UK server gets me down to 145ms. If you run a VPN try it out to see if it's a better ping time.