Is 14:00 GMT (2 in the afternoon for those with 12 hour clocks) considered a peak hour? Because using the IP addresses from ARRstatus.com, this is what a 30 second PingPlotter trace had to say about things:

Cerberus and Odin:

Phoenix and Zodiark:


Maybe there is some kind of trouble at the EU data center or something? Because going from 60 to 1300+ in ping is kind of... Yeah. Oh and of course there is packet loss (PL%), which most MMOs can't handle very well.