Can’t connect to EA servers Error code 1:86001S:66003S:4688822970:0B

Omg, I had this issue for two days now and tried EVERYTHING to resolve it, including barking at my ISP for breaking something. 

In the end it was the stupid **bleep** USB stick. Pulled it out, everything works again. Thank you so much for this thread. And EA, go suck a bag of **bleep**,