04-26-2009, 01:05 AM
General troubleshooting: do you have connection problems with anything else on the Internet? How complex is the path between your computer and your ISP (e.g. wired or wireless, multiple computers sharing an internet connection (if yes, how?), multiple layers of NAT)? Is anyone else using your connection while you connect (e.g. any P2P clients soaking up lots of upload capacity)? Are you running Mac OS X or Windows? If Windows, which Windows? If you tab out and run netstat -n while stuck waiting, what is the output?