Gameplay freezing

The game loads fine to the character selection screen and the characters load fine. Once it is loaded though, whether in town or a new character, I cannot move at all. All character animation is frozen, but water and weather effects still play. After a couple of minutes I'm booted back to the login screen.

I've tried turning off all firewalls and as many router settings i could find but nothing has helped.

I had completely disabled Windows Firewall. But just to be sure, I just tried turning it back on and refreshed the PoE exclusion. No dice.

I've also since tried putting my PC on a DMZ in my router, set up port forwarding for PoE's range and run the game through a VPN.

I've done a trace route for the Australia server.

http://pastebin.com/k4YD60mg

Ok, while I cannot move on screen or receive any chat, my friends receive the whispers I send them.

So I'm still connected to the server I guess, just not receiving anything back.

Tried several VPN services. Results in being unable to connect to login server.

Thanks for trying to help Drakier. I'm going out now, so will try more later today.

OK, using a VPN did fix it in the end, I just sucked at setting it up.

Can anyone advise, if a VPN fixed the issue, does that mean it is definitely an issues caused by my ISP?

Standard residential. I am with a new provider, but I have spoken to them this morning and they claim to not impose any restrictions that would interfere with online gaming.

Guess I'll just have to pay for a reliable VPN service if I wanna play.