"Realm is Full" WTF?!?!?

It says that the population is medium, yet I have to fucking wait to get on? And as often as I get randomly disconnected or have to logout to fix some shit, there's just no way this can be good. If I continue to get this 'till the end of the beta (or the end of my wits), there's no way I'm playing retail. Blizard needs to manage realm population by beefing up the realm's server farm, or limiting charactor creation, not by making you wait an hour everytime their game crashes or randomly disconnects you.