It looks like Blueyonder are having trouble over in the london area - although its not specifically near Scawen's place, it could be any number of routing / communication problems. Then again, it could be entirely unrelated, and there could be a hardware fault. Who knows
3j; since the master server runs off a blueyonder connection, I can certainly vouch that their services (at least over my side of the country) have gone downhill recently.