I'm jut spitballing, here, but does anyone else think that it might be the sheer amount of connect and disconnect attempts at high traffic times that cause this? Right now i haven't been able to get past the 'waiting for response' problem during the day, but at night i've been able to get in fairly easily in comparison (US) Just a thought. Edit: I just tested this on a very uncrowded server versus one that is near-full, and it seems my theory is accurate; less than a minute to get in versus not getting in at all on the crowded one. It will require more testing, but it seems the servers can't handle load of this magnitude, as it were.