[Bazooka_Joe]

1) Test the speed of your connection. It's cable so it should easily be over 300ms. Goto http://www.dslreports.com and use the test there. I have the worst cable conn. in my area, and it's 800, so for your sake I hope you have over that.

2) It's possible that you may be just trying to join a game that has a bad host. Keep looking for servers with the lowest ping possible, and the most room of players to join. This will lessen your chances of not being able to join.