this morning for the last half hour I've been losing server approximately every 5 minutes, WTH is wrong here?

same thing has been happening to me. I've been kicked off about 3 times in the last 30 minutes.

make that 4 times. Are you playing a foundry mission too?

Hmmm, it's never been perfect by I myself have not been having this problem. Not recently at least. I'm not sure what's up but I hope it gets sorted out for you.

Of course, I just realized that this response is coming about an hour later than the original post and I was away around the time it was made. My bad.

Been getting bumped pretty regularly myself. Did a tracert and it got hung up on some site ending in BOS4.ALTER.NET after clearing Verizon. If BOS = Boston, could it be an east coast/New England problem?

Edit: Oops, nvm, just saw the OP's in Melbourne...

...we're on the other side of the planet and our links to the rest of the world aren't really up to scratch although our Gov't is doing something about that, there is a prob in Hawaii (where we connect to you) but it's apparently localised so...anyhooo...

As with all connection troubles: More information is always better than just "It won't work!". It helps us trace what is happening.

Speaking of trace: Have you run a tracert to patchserver.crypticstudios.com ? Do you see a sudden drop-off in your data flow?
From where do you play?
Who is your ISP?
Do you have a regular drop-off and if so, around what time?

The more information you have, the better we can check what might be wrong.

I've merged some posts over to a thread which our Network guys are having an eye on. If you have a stability problem or sudden disconnects, please continue the conversation over there. Thanks so much!