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When I try to connect to minecraft.net, it loads forever and never finishes. When I pinged minecraft.net, this is what I got-

Pinging minecraft.net [54.225.201.135] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 54.225.201.135:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

Here is the console log when I try to install the minecraft launcher-
Bootstrap started
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma
Got reply in: 3497ms
Exception: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 2/10)
Got reply in: 3117ms
Exception: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 3/10)
Got reply in: 1314ms
Exception: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 4/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 5/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 6/10)
Got reply in: 4770ms
Exception: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 7/10)
Got reply in: 12254ms
Exception: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 8/10)
Got reply in: 1307ms
Exception: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 9/10)
Got reply in: 8096ms
Exception: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 10/10)
Got reply in: 6140ms
Exception: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
Unable to download remote file. Check your internet connection/proxy settings.
FATAL ERROR: net.minecraft.bootstrap.FatalBootstrapError: Unable to download while being forced
at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.execute(Bootstrap.java:83)
at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:367)

When I ran a tracert on minecraft.net, this is what I got-

Tracing route to minecraft.net [23.21.215.161]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 8 ms 8 ms 9 ms 74-139-1-101.dhcp.insightbb.c
4 14 ms 15 ms 15 ms 65.29.31.60
5 26 ms 27 ms 27 ms be24.clevohek01r.midwest.rr.c

6 32 ms 35 ms 35 ms ae10-0.cr0.dca20.tbone.rr.com
7 33 ms 33 ms 33 ms 107.14.19.135
8 32 ms 33 ms 33 ms ash-b2-link.telia.net [195.12
9 33 ms 36 ms * ash-b1-link.telia.net [213.15
10 35 ms * * vadata-ic-157231-ash-bb1.c.te
2]
11 35 ms * 58 ms 72.21.220.47
12 34 ms 35 ms 36 ms 72.21.222.91
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * 56 ms 62 ms 216.182.224.85
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 * * * Request timed out.
26 * * * Request timed out.
27 * * * Request timed out.
28 * * * Request timed out.
29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * * * Request timed out.

Trace complete.

Anyone have any ideas?