Eh. While not great given bandwidth availability at the time, most Quake hosted servers has excellent ping and latency for most people domestically. The main issues were honestly people hosting from their local machines across the world, which obviously had very poor results.
I am a former Quake 3 champion, have a lot of experience dealing with Quake 3 servers :)
I am a former Quake 3 champion, have a lot of experience dealing with Quake 3 servers :)