went out a brought a BF2.....

[keyser_soze]

This might be a long shot but make sure that you have an upto date version of the game and punkbuster installed, you might be updating either version before the game starts or you could be getting booted by pbuster because one or the other is'nt upto date. Have you managed to get into any servers?

[Wizard_Mon1]

its all going a bit better now did a defrag and got nod32 instead of mcafee and it is working alot better i also updated my grpahics card driver and i'm currently waiting for 2gb of ram that is on its way to me its all working alot better and i'm getting onto the servers but loading time is still about 3-5mins. its definetly worth the wait though .

got lots of help at total battlefield 2 forums, they seem to know what they are talking about.