I think it is hit or miss for people. This problem has been coming up a lot over the past 6 months or maybe more now. Some people are having trouble logging in and others have little to no trouble. Either way there is some amount of time-outs, lag or simply not being able to connect at all for everyone. It is very frustrating that this is a recurrent problem that keeps cropping up. It does appear that it is Server side as people from all over are having troubles, at least I am sure of NA and EU players.