Since circa 1830/1900 GMT on New Years Eve, the LB platform has been under a DDoS attack which they are trying to mitigate, this will result in either very slow connections or no connection/timeout to the platform.
Currently LB are updating 2 forum posts :
Post 1 : http://forums.myorderbox.com/index.php?showtopic=4383
Post 2 : http://forums.myorderbox.com/index.php?showtopic=4385
At this time, it is very intermitent in Europe, far better in the US.
We will update this post throughout the day or on twitter @netearthone