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

[Bittersauce]

I've been having these problems starting today.

So far, I've noticed the following behaviour:

LD on zoning (on my end, I'm stuck on the loading screen forever - waited 25 minutes in one case before closing the window. Group mates confirmed I went LD within a few minutes on their end)
LD on logging in (same as LD on zoning, stuck on the loading screen indefinitely)
On some recovery from LD, server select screen is empty
On some recovery from LD, I'm told my spell files are out of date

Every once in a while I just have an extremely long zonetime (10+ mins)

Interestingly, once I'm IN the zone, I have no issues at all.

No other internet issues experienced outside of this. I'm Canadian, and on Bell, so it isn't the infamous AT&T issue. Tracert while experiencing the issue below:

Tracing route to 66.55.145.2 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms mynetwork [192.168.2.1]
2 8 ms 7 ms 3 ms 10.11.2.241
3 * 3 ms 2 ms 10.178.206.72
4 3 ms 3 ms 2 ms 10.178.206.73
5 20 ms 23 ms 23 ms tcore4-toronto12_2-4-0-0_.net.bell.ca [64.230.10
4.164]
6 16 ms 19 ms 19 ms tcore4-montreal01_hundredgige0-9-0-0.net.bell.ca
[64.230.79.195]
7 17 ms 18 ms 16 ms newcore1-newyork83_so6-0-0_0 [64.230.187.234]
8 17 ms 19 ms 16 ms bx6-newyork83_xe3-0-0.net.bell.ca [64.230.187.15
8]
9 23 ms 43 ms 23 ms nyiix.gi3-6.cr1.nyc1.choopa.net [198.32.160.157]

10 * 22 ms 22 ms vl23-br2.pnj1.choopa.net [66.55.130.53]
11 22 ms 21 ms 21 ms vl20-br1.pnj1.choopa.net [108.61.244.41]
12 * 20 ms * ethernet1-2-1-c8-12-b2-1.pnj1.choopa.net [108.61
.244.50]
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.