Extremely difficult to connect to the game

[Championchains]

I'm having the same problem. I've been trying to play pretty often over the last three days. I've tried logging in well over 200 times and I've only made it past character select twice.

i continuously get "error 1017" (if and when i get an error message)...about 90% of the time, there's no error message, just boots me back to the login screen. i've made it to the character select screen a handful of times, each time i click "enter world", i get the "everquest not responding" before it boots me to the login. anytime this happens, it takes about 5 minutes or so due to "error 1018" (character is currently in the game world).

This is super frustrating. I used to play EQ on dial up on a piece of shit compaq pressario, now a pc/connection that runs battlefield/modern warfare and other current online games flawlessly cannot manage to get an 18 year old game to connect.