Kiara just contacted me to let me know that SOE is having network issues that is affecting everything - login servers, chat, forums, everything. It's being worked on and will be resolved as soon as possible.
Kinda funny - Kiara called me while I was running errands. I was at the WIC office picking up our warrants. Conveniently, they have a public computer there so I was able to post that without cruising for a wifi hotspot with my iPod, lol.