Time for me to add my two bits.
David R would understand this when I say I read elsewhere in the virus forum where a user referred to the slow to non-existent connectivity issue as the "circle up in the upper left corner going anti-clockwise" for an awfully long time. Seems we all have been having trouble connecting for quite some time now.
I think the user meant counter-clockwise.
"Death by a thousand cuts" is pretty concise and this delay really is frustrating. I can say it is only here I experience this problem. Everywhere else I go I am fine.
If anyone can find or relay the cause to all, it will perhaps ease the pain. :'(
mchain