After an hour of waiting, the queue strangely dropped down to "1" and that's where I was stuck for like 40 minutes.

Made it back after two Error 2002 and amazingly enough got in.

I kind of wish they would implement an auto reconnect so you didn't have to log in again after error 2002.

Or if they could actually fix it so you didn't get the error. 17K still seems like a small number across the whole datacenter.