Recent zone loading freezes, crashes, & failure to connect to server

[Anowin]

Exact same problems here. I have an AT&T tech coming to the house on Wednesday, as I have noticed some coincidental slowness in browsing as well. But, never had a problem until a few days ago. Whether in windowed mode or not, attempting to log in I get either:

1) After typing password, I get "logging in to server...", and then a pop up stating there was a problem and could not log in, or;

2). The password is accepted and I can log in to the server select screen, but it is blank/black with no severs to select; or

3). I get all the way to character select (after an inordinate loading time), but when I click "enter world" it freezes/never takes me into the world, and I have to end task; or

4). I get all the way in, finally, and can play (with some subtle loot lag/ghosting which never used to occur), but I get stuck zoning - it takes longer than normal for the red "LOADING, PLEASE WAIT..." to come up in the chat bar, and then it just stays on that screen. I never actually get kicked back to the log in screen; or

5). On extremely rare occasions, I can play and actually zone once or twice after long zoning times, but eventually I freeze on zoning.