Need for Speed Hot pursuit autolog servers??

Hey EA and Forum.

i have an upcoming LAN in about 2 weeks and since a lot of the guys don't have gotten the newest of the newest of PC's we usually plays NFS Hot Pursuit. but it seems there are a problem with connecting to the autolog servers which you have to connect to unless you unplug your ethernet cable.

is there a way to bypass the auto-login to the servers?

are the servers no more?

Emil