Seeing the message "Unable to connect" in SF4 is really common place, I know. But sometimes it goes far beyond the occasional misfire. Sometimes it will give me 100% inability to connect to other players. 
 
For the past 30 minutes I've had my button on turbo with a weight on it to keep it pressed. The game is continuously searching and connecting to other players but it has failed 100% of the times for over 30 minutes. I've tried restarting the game a couple of times and I've been able to catch a match here and there but overall it's extremely frustrating seeing people with a 4 or 5 bars and not being able to connect to them. Despite the turbo-aided searching I can't connect to anyone!
 
Anyone else experiencing this?

I know this is a hard concept, but if you cant connect to anyone via Custom/Quick Match...Host your own match or sit in arcade mode with fight request on.. MIND BLOWING I know.

" I know this is a hard concept, but if you cant connect to anyone via Custom/Quick Match...Host your own match or sit in arcade mode with fight request on.. MIND BLOWING I know. "

At the risk of sounding condescending, have you tried resetting your internet connection? Sometimes I can't connect to anyone, so I have to power cycle my modem and it works just fine.

yeah jeff has the right answer why sit for 30 minutes trying connect to a match when you can host your own and get someone to join in a couple of minutes.

Sometimes the same idiot is popping up in the search over and over again. And it's always a Chinese player with fight req on. 
So just watch who you're trying to join and you shouldn't have that problem, unless your internet connection is crap. 
Or just host a game as the others said.

" I know this is a hard concept, but if you cant connect to anyone via Custom/Quick Match...Host your own match or sit in arcade mode with fight request on.. MIND BLOWING I know. GET HYPE "

Forward your damn ports. Problem solved.

So no one has experienced this?  
 
I have over 2000 matches in this game. There's nothing wrong with my internet. PS3 is in the demilitarized zone = no firewall. It seems pretty rare but this has happened to me twice already. I know that sometimes players will show up on top over and over, but this time there was a lot of players and lots of variety in the search results. Many of them pinged 3-5 bars.
 
I tried creating a game once and when no one joined and I closed the lobby and Capcom's servers decided to drop my championship at that point and give me a disconnection percentage. Yeah, that's what I want to do. 
 
It's connecting fine today. This is not a consistent problem for me. I just find it really weird that sometimes SF4 switches into a mode where it can't connect to anyone. Not even to the lobby.

"Reading must be hard for you, its not you its Street Fighter 4's matchmaking it sucks hard."

" @Jeffsekai said:

"Reading must be hard for you, its not you its Street Fighter 4's matchmaking it sucks hard."

Writing must be hard for you. That's not even a proper sentence. Please read my posts before you attempt to give me useless advice. "

"It's connecting fine today. This is not a consistent problem for me. I just find it really weird that sometimes SF4 switches into a mode where it can't connect to anyone. Not even to the lobby. "