Also for others having this issue for me it was a dns issue. I was not able to ping us dot actual dot battle dot net, the requests were timing out. Switching the dns server for my LAN Adapter to use google dns (8.8.8.8 and alternate 8.8.8.4) resolved the issue for me! Here is the link to steps I followed:
search the web for:
how-to-switch-to-opendns-or-google-dns-to-speed-up-web-browsing
Good luck!