I was playing on the server perfectly fine since I started (2ish weeks ago) and yesterday evening I suddenly get ~5000ms where my normal ping is somewhere between 80 to 100.
Needless to say, the 5000ms made the server completely unplayable. In addition to that, I'd get disconnected every minute or so. The server was just completely unresponsive.
I figured the problem was due to the high population at the time (6-7k players on /who) and figured it'd be playable in the morning but I'm still getting the same problem.
I'm currently downloading the Nostalrius client, hoping that it'll fix things.
Does anybody have any experience with this sort of problem?