Last night I got the same problem as what I described in my post below but the second time it came up "Error 303 - unable to connect to server'....or something like that. But that was around 7-7:30pm Central....I came back on around 9-9;30 to try again and amazingly I played for about 1.5 hrs without a issue.
If you are experiencing bad latency while playing you should check your internet connection for any network or service outages and follow the process below: