For anyone that's interested I will post what the problem was.
After monitoring my wifi connection with wireshark I noticed a whole lot of SYN packets to static.oneclickchicks.com but no SYN/ACK response. To cut a long story short the server is obviously busy and my machine took 2/3 attempts at the TCP handshake with no reponse. My fantastic (cough) Belkin router thought this was a SYN flood attack and blocked the connection, causing the connection to time out. Turns out the Belkin doesnt do stateful inspection and had no concept of inside/outside the network.
Anyway, turned off the DDoS protection thing on the router (they just call it a Firewall - ha) and all is now great again.
Somebody might care, but I thought I should conclude the topic.
ReFlexx
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