Absolutely horrible lag after Dawn of the Hunt update

I thought this was just me, but many of my friends also report that the game is borderline unplayable. Luckily it pauses every time connection is lost, but recently I had a pause every 5 seconds, with some rubberbanding as well as freezes in loading screens.

I got kicked only twice. But it is very very bad.

Is it something that may be fixed on my side? Some new port that needs forwarding, or a new setting I haven't noticed?

Same here, two days in a row now at 8 PM EST the ms keep going up and down causing the game to pause every other second.

I've monitored my network and nothing changes between 7 PM and 8 PM EST.

There is clearly something wrong with the servers/network. Is there something going on at that time (1 AM BST)...

I know it's early access, but not being able to play the game to test new stuff is getting on my nerves.

Since I have posted this I am getting kicked after 10 minutes on average. No such problems on PoE1.

Many lag issues here as well. Some acknowledgement of these issues from GGG is required.