I've tried to logon to FFXI today, but for some reason it only stays on for about a few minutes before the numbers in the upper right corner (next to the S and R and percentage) would start diving down into the double digits, causing all in-game actions to slow to an extreme crawl until I'm kicked of with a timed out error.

I don't understand why exactly this is happening. But I suspect it may have something to do with the fact that I picked up a new DSL modem from Verizon today? It didn't work at first and I had to work with Verizon's customer service to completely reconfigure my router and network settings to get things going again. When I did, I ended up changing the security settings for the router from WEP to WPA. Maybe that has something to do with it? I play on PS2, and the first thing I went to do before I logged on was to adjust the network settings on the POL screen, but it doesn't even ask for security mode or password.

So, I'm kind of at a loss for what to do about this problem.