agam3mn0n, I know your anger with this one but I'm certain it's a communication issue up the pipe on the Sydney-Hawaii-Los Angeles path. And yeah, I seriously doubt its a Windows 8 problem either but as a tech' that one is going to be thrown around a lot as a scapegoat until EA openly declare they'll support the O/S. :\
Please run the UOTrace tests and pass the information on to your ISP so they can at least check for the Level3.net routing failure. Though if you're with Telstra or TPG, you have my sympathies since they didn't want to know about it either... hopefully you'll get lucky and the ISP Support will hear you out like iiNet and Internode did.
Desertrunner, fortunately, I am with Westnet which is an iinet subsidiary and yes this issue is looking like an issue on the other side of my router. Reverting back to Windows 7 is not exactly a welcome regression but what can we do when thats a typical response. Thanks for the info though, I do appreciate it, I'll send this info along to Westnet...
Cheers
agam3mn0n don't bother downgrading to Windows 7. Other player I know who are using Windows 8 say it works fine, but Origin can be a bit prickly at times when being updated.
Did Westnet report any new information?
