Sorry tycho. Switching to another pool until you figure out this connection stuff that has been plaguing you the past few days.
I can't connect to ANY pool except deepbit and when I am connected it get lost communication so often that it will destroy my GPUs, so I shut down all mining. I think an attack on major pools [or perhaps an attempt to distrupt miners as opposed to the pools themselves] might be going on. I even had my IP address changed and it worked very smoothly for about 10 minutes and then after that I got stomped again. I will disengage dynamic DNS registration and see if perhaps an attacker is following me by domain name. Seems rather improbable though.
Not sure what the heck is going on.
I have been having the same exact problems today... It went as far as my NIC not working. Had to restart it manually... Not sure what to think att his point... You do not have Comcast for internet by chance do you? Wonder if they would be cracking down on network usage? Wouldnt be the first time they did that....