The ingame browser is a little flaky, works for some people and not others.
One of our coders made an external browser that works very well. You can download from this thread. http://www.westernquake3.net/viewtopic.php?t=823
or
You can go the server listing page and get the IP for a server and manualy input it. This page is also good for seeing if anyone is playing..
http://www.bootblock.de/wq3/
Last you can check out stats for 3 of our most active servers, just to get an idea of how many players there are and to see where you rank..
http://www.westernquake3.net/template.p ... 214cc00441