No connection, fields don't load
 

I've been having this problem since the patch last night. Sometimes I lag super hard. Like I can't talk, can't move, no one else is moving, the chat window does not display anything. If I log out and back in it usually fixes it.

Also, half the time when I'm loading a field it just doesn't load. None of the "Now Loading" letters ever turn blue. I have to close the game and restart it and it just takes me to where I was trying to port from. I'm stuck in Roumen because it won't let me take any of the gates to a different field.

It's clearly a patch problem seeing as how it started after the 12-23 patch, but I've reinstalled twice to no avail. I checked my firewall to make sure the game is on the Exceptions list, and it is.

Any suggestions?