I imagine it's caused by a loop somewhere in the socket module coding, when connecting to a specific zone causing an infinite loop in the "attempting to connect" section of the code. That would be character specific, like i got mine when zoning from my star ship bridge into the K-9 star base. Where I could make a new…
This isn't an isolated issue, multiple people are experiencing this. It's not the ISP, it's not your router/computer/whatever, it's PW or Cryptic ****ed up and is causing the client to hang when attempting to connect to the PW servers =/