Losing connection after character select.

[Xer0]

ON top of the typical inability to actually log in to the character select that I usually experence, these days it's been disconnecting me from the character select. After I choose my character and select enter world the game simply locks up for five minutes as if it were beginning to load, and when all's done it boots me back to the login. From this point it continues to refuse to allow me to connect to the server. Giving me a combination of error 1017, unknown error, and "a timeout has occured" errors.

anyone have any idea what might cause this? Honestly it seems to me, judging by the look of the Tech Discussion FORUM, that might be something server side, as I see a increasing amount of threads about similar issues.