Gateway's working fine for me after 'CTRL+F5'. The problem persists with the launcher which takes a lot of time to get to the logon panel, as well as the game itself where I can't load the characters what with all the timeouts.
I seem to be having the same problem with the game and gateway too. I thought it was my net giving the hiccups but relieved to see you guys suffer too :P
How big is the patch? The pre-patch launcher closes when there's a disconnection and doesn't seem to resume though. It always begins to patch from 1.7GB. Had 70% completed in a few hours and now this happens.
Bump to OP's bug report. I am having the same problem as op mentioned. Here's a screenshot to help you understand. Will somebody please look into it urgently as I have to lvl my fawn to max so that it glows :P