Monday, May 21, 2007 - 02:21 pm, by: Leon Wright(Techman)
Get rid of IE, now that would be a good start!
It sounds like you having some major routing issues connecting to SC.
Unfortunately diagnosing such problems can be very very difficult (had plenty of phone calls from South Africa at 3am in the morning wondering why they can't access our mail server etc.) for starters who's your ISP?
Update it and scan your computer. Spyware can do funny things. You may not notice on other sites, but if you are already having packet loss to SC then Spyware can be the straw that breaks the camels back.