Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-11700680-20170925152301/@comment-29735334-20170925172342

Have you tried using the VPN method? If it works better with VPN, then the issue likely lies in your ISP - it probably has a line severed somewhere. In that case, you may need to use VPN for a bit until it is fixed before you can go back to using only cookie method.

I had severe connectivity issue back in the last week of Summer '17 event, and had to resort to using VPN until event end. Now I'm back to only using cookie.