OK, I just got a chance to dive in to what actually works.
Geofilter, seems to work fine, the ping heat map page still has not loaded however.
I tested the geofilter at least with coldwar, got an 86 ping lobby with the filter off and a 46 ping lobby when I turned it on, so 1st impression is really good, almost twice as good of a lobby, and it actually found a game faster than when I had left it off. Small sample size but again, great 1st impression. But I can't help but wonder how good of ping I'm able to get as a best case scenario, and I need to see the ping heat map for that....