The only slightly similar recent issue was the guy who had to lower his MTU so his eopkg transfers wouldn't be so terribly slow. See the discussion on Matrix starting here
You also were the only one to have issues with the forums once they were fully back up, so your network seems to be special in one way or another, and eopkg
isn't very smart about that kind of thing.
(You're not using a VPN or anything, are you?)