Return of Reckoning

Ah. I picked a great time to try and come back amidst the DDOS and all. I was really hoping it was just me and not the servers.

So, I've downloaded the game as well as the RoR patcher as outlined in registering a new account. Unfortunately every time I try and connect to the game it gives me this error:

Could not connect to Login server
System.Net.Sockets.SocketException (0x80004005): A connection attempt failed because the ...