What about using one of the other US servers? I personally use us1 with us2 as my failover.
It doesn't seem to matter which one I enter, it gets rejected.
I use them in reverse order 3,2,1
telnet us3.eclipsemc.com 3333
Connecting To us3.eclipsemc.com...Could not open connection to the host, on port
3333: Connect failed
The above means that the server isn't listening on tcp port 3333