Nea best look to see is a server is top .
Step1. Discover the server(that is quite hard to find in these days)
Step2.Download the patch from the website if the website exist and the link works
Step3.Check if the server have forum
Step4.Log on server with l2phx and if it works leave the server how fast you can
Step5.Check pvp/safe/ ares if that aren't populated server is fail