Part of the problem I believe is that the titanium client is a bit older at this point. It isn't as well optimized to allow to faster load times and optimization of new hardware. Also the server(s) has to communicate with the client when you load which can be variable despite what your latency is to the current server you're connected to.
I think all the zones are on separate servers that's all hosted on the same rack. May be wrong about this but I think that's how eq emu works?
I can say for sure that my client gos to a black screen for 5-10 seconds, then shows the eq loading screen for 1-2 seconds and finally after that it shows me the world. That's on hdd, I can cut the time in 1/2 or 1/3 if i use ramdisk. So i conclude it's just the old titanium client.
Edit: another thing I didn't think about is that when titanium came out there was no windows 7+, so it's not optimized for that either.
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