> I have found that I successfully can get to WOL if I first play a few minutes of single player skirmish before actually logging on to WOL. Weird, but it's worked several times. Unfortunately, the last tim there was only one other person at WOL when I got on.

WOL is being DOS attacked which means the server is being flooded with too many connections. If you keep trying you may manage to jump on when there is a "space".
Thats probably how u managed to get on - was pure coincidence and timing.
And only a few people will be successful in getting on whilst it is being flooded.

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