Zoning and Logon Window

[Andante]

Zoning from Greater Faydark into Crushbone lately has become an affair of patience. About 60 percent of the time, i'm zoning. After three minutes, I figure something else is going on. I remember when I played EQ at 28k baud AND a PC running at 500mhz and zoning was like that. Thankfully, PCs got MUCH better (so that now msux thinks they are justified using an absurdly huge operating system and thinking it's secure).

Thirty percent of the time when I logon and it goes to the server window, nothing is listed! What must i do to resolve these silly errors? Re-install eq?

Thank you very much in advance.