Those coverage maps, even Nimrod's first one, are useless. Anyone with Internet access is 'covered'. Furthermore, the connection speed related to geographic distance from the list servers is negligible beside your own slow residential connection. And as BoggyB quite adequately explained, speed and latency (delay) are not even important for a server that just gives you a short list.

For me, in western Canada, a ping reply from Nimrod's server takes about 130ms. Monolith's is about half that, while Contrabandent (US) is also about 130ms. Consider that human perception time at its best is around 500ms (milliseconds). A blink of the eye takes 100–150ms.