Call of Duty 3 Online Issues

It would appear that some people are experiencing issues when trying to join online games in Call of Duty 3. Treyarch are already on to it though, and are working on the problem.

fourzerotwo, a Community Relations Manager for Infinity Ward posted the following on the official Xbox.com forums:

We understand that some players have experienced difficulty joining Ranked Matches and Player Matches over Xbox Live - we are working as hard as we can to resolve these issues as quickly as possible.  Please continue to post the symptoms of any problems encountered to help us resolve the situation.  While we continue to investigate, there are a couple of steps that can be taken to improve the player's ability to join games.

Ranked Match

Due to the extremely high volume of players attempting to join Ranked Matches simultaneously upon initial release of the game, the Quick Match option may have difficulty matching players together.  As a workaround, it is recommended that players join Ranked Matches through the "Custom Match" option.  Custom Match searches may take anywhere from 30 seconds to 2 minutes to find adequate matches for your game.  It is recommended that all players give the Ranked Match search a minimum of 30 seconds to complete - continually searching, cancelling, and searching again within a matter of a few seconds causes the overall environment of Ranked Matches over Xbox Live less stable.

Player Match

When a player chooses Player Match, the game returns a session list of the first 50 games that match the search query.  Each of those games has a quality rating of 1 - 5 stars.  Players should always join games with 4 or 5 stars to ensure that they have a good connection with the host.  If the game is still not joinable with 4 or 5 stars, it means that another player in that game does not have the ability to connect directly to you.  This situation is typically caused when one player has a strict NAT on their router or has a very poor internet connection quality.  In order to improve these conditions, all players should follow the instructions posted below to open up their Xbox 360 connection to the internet.

How about you? Any problems with CoD3 online?