Paris is down to 70 before it was 47ish, is it gonna go back to the 50s in later weeks or is this the new ping for Paris because of the new topology?
Yes - we wont be able to get better than this without adding additional network links this will take a significant amount of time. Egypt was setup to go via Milan and Frankfurt (probably because the cable across the sea lands in Marseille) because League of Legends is hosted in Frankfurt and this will be the better path for the majority once we start using this infrastructure for LOL also. Any VPN provider that lets you terminate into Paris or select the geography you land in should be able to route you around this.