Connection Problems

I seem to be having quite a lot of connection problems with BattleForge. I don't know if its because I am a Free to Play player at the moment, but when I first booted up the game I had to create a Watcher with a picture. I look through the pictures, select one, and type in my name.

Then I see the mouse cursor turn into an hourglass and I wait for a few minutes. As I'm waiting I'm thinking this shouldn't be taking this long. So I wait a little bit longer then a message pops-up saying your connection to the server has been lost.

Ok, so I log in again and see that my Watcher has been created, I select it and click continue. I wait awhile and finally the game starts to load and I select tutorial.

Great I think maybe creating the Watcher just had a little hiccup. I'm playing the tutorial and I tell my soldiers to attack this rebel hut. They start hacking away at the tent and two enemies come out. I tell my soldiers to turn their focus to the enemy soldiers and the game slows down to a crawl. Eventually my guys defeat the enemy and then a message comes saying I was disconnected from the server again.

I don't think its my graphics card, and I know my computer exceeds the minimum requirements. I don't usually have connection issues with other games so I'm not sure what the problem is. Right now I am pretty frustrated though.