High ping-unplayable

[NTK24]

Love the game- seems like servers are having problems. I have great internet and fine ping on every other game I play online. My friend is on the east coast, I am out west- in short, we have a lot of issues playing together. Map objects like rocks, grass, clover, etc... will appear for me, but not him(host). I can pick up a rock, put it in my inventory, but it will appear to still be on the ground. He can no longer see it, but I can. This same issue happens will all objects the map spawns, but not player created items. Has anyone else experienced this issue?