it's not a fix, it just improves your odds of getting online because you're making attempts to log in faster, hoping to land a recently vacated spot before someone else does. The problem is, there are a couple hundred to thousands of others doing the exact same thing. If they'd just put everyone in a proper queue and never force anyone to see that stupid error 1017, they'd probably at least cut down on the massive server load all these requests to log in are creating.