Client goes link dead every few minutes

[Iaeuvien]

I've been having an issue since I started playing last week or so. My client gets disconnected from the server but without any crashing that I've read so many others experience. Once it occurs, I appear LD to everyone around me but my client stays running. On the F11 status bar, that 100% starts dropping about 1% / sec and the green bar slowly turns black going right to left. Once the countdown hits 0% I get the black "you have been disconnected" screen. If I zone while its at 100% I can zone without getting disconnected. It is very random. Sometimes I have it occur every 3 minutes while other times I can play for 2 hours before it starts. My short-term solution has thus far to be /exit as soon as I see it going down past 90% and restarting which takes all of 3 minutes but this does get annoying quick when I'm in a group and I have to restart every 3 minutes.


So far:
I've set the CPU affinity to 1.
I've updated Win7.
I've tried running in windowed and full screen modes.
I tried running in compatability settings but then EQ won't even start.
I've tried running as Admin.
I've spent 3 days scouring these forums for the same problem so as to avoid multiple posts about the same thing but after tens of pages of posts I have yet to see anyone else with this same problem. Everyone else seems to have crashing accompanied in some way. Nobody I've talked to in-game has any idea either so here I am. I do apologize about the long post but don't know where else to turn with this.