About 3-4 weeks back, my connection to the game degenerated into a combination of 500 ping times to 1000+ ping times (Used to be about 350ish) and the occasional 30 second to 5 minute long spike where I get a static screen followed by a huge burst of text at the end of it. After poking around with some stuff, I find that it has nothing to do with the system I'm using or the laptop (been using it to connect to Lusty ever since I started). Turns out my ISP installed some "server upgrades" just before the problems started. I suspect they're running port 23 among some others through a filter and the server though I might be wrong. Anyone come across similar issues or care to speculate? Is there something I could do?

By the way, the ISP I subscribe to is a monopoly in my country.

Have you tried port 2003? Maybe that one'll work better for you?

Yea, I have. I still run into those huge spikes and die to tiny mobs
Thanks though.