Pressing play on character select produces errors

[Gretzel.6790]

'transaction in progress', or no response at all. Been playing for four years and I've never encountered this problem before. My internet isn't cut out or anything or I wouldn't be able to post this. Any ideas as to what the issue is? Its completely acting up. When I do get in game eventually, my skills have several seconds delay on them. Is there a setting that's been fucked up or something? My firewall is off; that's not the issue. I can hop on youtube and stream videos just fine so the internet connection itself isn't horribly laggy and I was just playing this yesterday without any problems.

[Inculpatus cedo.9234]

You can use a program like Pingplotter to see if there are connection issues to the server(s).

 

Good luck.