Lag to the maximum?

[Ayamia]

So, yesterday I had one disconnect and 3 ping timeouts in a row trying to access character selection screen...

This morning I'm having trouble just put my password in and see the PLAY button.

There's something really wrong with the connection to SE servers right now. Even Lodestone loads extremely slowly. I'm hoping I'm not the only one with this... I know some other people had that disconnection and 2-3 ping timeouts yesterday as well.

Steps:
First one:
1. Stand in Ul'dah
2. Get disconnected
3. Go FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU at the ping timeouts trying to access character screen

Second one:
1. Open FFXIV client
2. Wait forever for the account name, password and token number thingie bars to come up
3. Set password and token thingie and wait even more forever for the play button appear
4. Wait and wait and wait and wait... Then go whine at technical support.
Edit: 5. Finally see the Play button... Pressing it makes it load even longer and doesn't open the true FFXIV client.
6. Well, after waiting nearly 10 minutes the FFXIV client finally popped up...

Date & Time:
23.12.2011 9.30-9.45 EET (GMT+2?)

Frequency:
First one only once. Second one I'm still suffering on 2nd try.

PC Manufacturer & Model Number:
Homebuilt Computer

Operating System:
Windows 7

Graphics Card:
Nvidia GTX 460

ISP:
DNA Welho

Type of Internet Connection:
Cable