Forum:ME3 Server Issue

Greetings all, I've been away from both the wiki and the Mass Effect games for a while due to University business, but now I'm back for the summer! Can't wait to play ME3 again — but lo and behold: every time I start up to the game, I get to the "Connecting to EA servers" bit and no matter what, I always get that same "EA servers unavailable" message. Usually I would just try again another time, but now that the problem has persisted for several days, I believe something is truly wrong, but I've no idea what and I can't play ME3 at all until I can find a way to connect to the EA servers.

I've already asked this question on ea.com's Answers HQ site for ME3 but no reply yet. Looking around the web, it would seem that a great many gamers have had a very similar problem, be they on PC like me or on other consoles. So far, I've tried changing my account password and altering my router settings, but neither worked. Said router was newly installed a couple of months ago around the time I was having connectivity issues with my PC, but this new router specifically solved that problem, so I'm not sure whether it is to blame for this new one, since my game worked fine just after the new router was installed.

I can't think what the problem is or what to do about it, so I'm asking for help everywhere I can. I'm hoping you guys on the wiki may have some advice for me.