You can connect to a password protected server by finding a random password server and inserting your password. Then click "no" then direct connect to your server and it'll use your password.
Everyone posting about server issues but not providing which server location. Would be helpful to know. As an example, LA server that I'm on seems to be working ok. I get some rubber banding sometimes with only one player on the server. But my ping is 55-63 and I'm near Chicago. However, the Texas server i was getting 80 - 95 ping which is weird as it should be lower.