Scourge of War Boards

Has anyone had problems logging onto SOWG today or tonight? A friend and I tried for about 45 minutes tonight to play MP but we kept getting the same message: "connection to NAT server failed" or something like that. We live about 90 miles apart--the last time we got messages like this was a lot of years ago.

Anyone else notice anything strange when trying MP tonight?

maybe it is due to port transport......I often see host list is empty so wonder anyone there or other methods about MP playing