Random 9-second connection loss... Patch soon?

I have a player who disconnects every 1-3 minutes (varies) for exactly 9 seconds (doesn't vary). He's connected remotely, but my wife (the only other player) is on my local network. Whenever he reconnects (nine seconds after each disconnect), it makes her screen blink as it broadcasts the game again; she's prone to migraines, so his connection issues tend to shorten our games even more than they normally would. His reconnection also makes the Game Log (or other) window lose focus while I'm typing, and I usually press several hotkeys by accident before I can stop myself. This window focus issue is also a problem whenever anybody moves, which is even more of a problem, but not necessarily related to the disconnection.

If anyone's trying to troubleshoot:
He's on cable internet (wired) and we were on (wireless) DSL. However, we "upgraded" to cable over this past weekend, and I haven't yet had the time to call their customer support to get the inevitable connection problems fixed. Maybe the disconnections will stop when we have >512kbps upload rates, but I'd be surprised if that were really the issue. I would even blame the wireless connection, if not for the fact that my wife has never been disconnected.

I'm wondering if it's the same as the player disconnect/loading bug reported in this thread:

That was November 21. Has any progress been made? I'm guessing the holidays cut into development a bit, but are we getting close yet?

And can you tell me if either of my issues (the disconnections or the cursor ADHD) will be fixed by the patch?

Basically, how long until my game becomes playable?

 

Awesome. Thanks!