It doesn't have anything to do with the server, Ich, it's the computer I'm working from. And actually, I now, as of late last night, have a laptop (extremely slow, old, and clunky) that can actually *play* Dom3 again, yay me! We were able to get one of them working again. Sadly, it's by far the worst of the three I actually own, but it's a heck of a lot better than nothing. So as long as I confine myself to playing against only 1-3 Nations on Silent Seas, with all of the higher graphic functions turned off, and no patches, I can once again actually play the game
I still can't practically download anything, because the thing's more or less an abacus, only slower, and half-ways broken, and can't really get online, but it works!