It took me over 5 hours to be able to get in a little while today before erroring out.
At this point, I've been trying for 2 hours now since I was last booted. About 20 minutes ago, we got a queue & several of my guild members (in Mumble) got in, but I got booted back out to the 1017 and then just locked out, we have determined all players appear to be locked out for about an hour at a time, then it allows a very small queue of players access, then kicks out the rest & locks again.