Connectivity issue?

[Xer0]

I've not been able to log on for the last hour or so. I was logged in about 11 pm, intended to log out to fix resolution issues from main options menu and havent been able to relog since. Getting kicked back to the login screen after selecting my server and clicking "Play Everquest" and getting Error 1017 whenever I login following a boot to the login screen

"cannot login to the everquest server. You may need to re-run the update patch, Repeatedly seeing this message indicates a loss of connectivity to thepatch server. This is usually temporary."

Is this because thje server cant handle over 1000 people? I see thenumber of players is over 1000.