Hey i think your latest patch/hotfix (applied today) has fixed it. At least, i still have that registry setting altered (linked above) but things are looking good.

I'll outline what has happened.

Was in a game with a buddy when we lost the session and everyone got kicked. Looked like the server we were on got updated to this new version. Got kicked back to the multiplayer list and bugger me if the list populated as you would expect it to. This was BEFORE i updated my client as i was still ingame. Therefore whatever you have done server side seems to have resolved this problem that i (and seemingly quite a few people online) was getting.

Thankyou very much - hopefully this issue keeps you informed on, for all i know, what may be an unexpecteed outcome to your update. Nothing has changed hardware-wise my end, nothing at all.

Great, i have lots of servers in my list and my internet connection is completely unaffected when i pull the list of servers down!