Can't connect. Can't even get to registration :/

As title states, every time I try to connect via that Pokegear or that door behind my friend safari nothing happens past the ‘Connect to server (Press C)’ prompt besides a black screen. It doesn’t disconnect me or crash my game cos I can go back from this black screen by pressing X but it doesn’t connect me either. Any advice? I’ve added the Game.exe to my firewall exceptions and tried running as admin. Any help will be much appreciated, thanks.

I think the server may be down or very slow at the moment, as I am also not connecting.

me too

The server had problems yesterday, you might try again.

I’m having this problem right now. Though my game ends up crashing. I’ve verified I’ve got the right version too. I’ve made an exception for the game too. Any advice?