Just for now try a direct connect from your modem to your pc, see if that is your problem and if it does you need to do more tweaking.
As for what MySQL does it holds all your items, factions, noc names, player characters, pathings, pretty much everything but the zone layout and character models itself, it does however control sort of what they look like. Like the forums for example, your browser gets a small script that says This color here and here but pull this information from the database about this and this topic and thread
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