Over the last few days I've seen more and more people get disconnected and then (after reconnection) report to have had problems getting back into the game. It's the old story of getting stuck at loading screen with 0.01 kb/s, with no sign of any change.

In game... AH takes a long time to do a search (not always the case, but extremely noticeable when it happens).

Now a new problem...

I've been trying to create a new character for the last 25 mins. 5 mins for creation (no problems there), 4x5 min sessions waiting for the server to tell me if the name has been taken or not (and yes it is a very painful process).

My connection is fine and more than beefy enough to cope, and my ISP is fine too, as ever, this leaves one option.

Please sort things out, since the patch things have really gone on-the-wonk.