LD problems

[Masque]

whenever i log onto everquest, i can get to the character selection screen fairly fast, but after that wheni click on enter world, usually, it just stays on that everquest flash screen, or i log onto the world. however, i stay in the world for about 5 mins, then i go LD, i've tried out around 7 log ins and i've gotten stuck on the everquest flash screen 3 times, and went LD those other 4 times WITHIN 5 mins.. anyone got any solution to this ?

p.s. also any help with configuration to increase my internet speed would be helpful, i have 512k connection but it feels sooo slow and lags up quite a bit a lot of the time.