Just a note that I live in southwest Florida. I have logged into the game before with no issues.
Today at about 8am eastern I logged in. Then a few minutes later I got disconnected. This has repeated 2 other times over the next 35 minutes. I get a ton of lag that goes over 100,000 ms before I get knocked back to the server selection screen... which is empty of servers.
I have been closing the game, waiting a few minutes and then logging back in, only to get knocked off a few minutes later. Looking at the forums on Steam I am not the only person who keeps getting knocked off.