Ironclad online running very slowly

I love the game and seem to be having intermittent problems trying to log into Ironclad online.

I load up Sins and try to log into Ironclad. I enter my username and password and then nothing happens. I'm not able to select the game name I want to use and Sins simply sits there doing nothing with the login button greyed out.  I can back out of it, restart, etc and nothing makes any difference.

However, if I let it sit there after about 5-10 minutes it will log me in, I'm able to choose a game name and enter Ironclad online. However, once I log in I can't see anything. No channels, users, friends, games, etc. However, if I wait about another 5 minutes it all appears and then works fine.

To make it even stranger, this only happens occasionally. I've played online for the past 5 days and this has happened twice. Today and two days ago.

All my other internet applications work fine with no slow down and I've not got anything running the background.

Any ideas on what could be causing this. Although it's not stopping me altogether it's frustrating knowing that it an take anywhere between 15 seconds to 15 minutes simply to log into Ironclad.

Thanks in advance.