Disconnected from Ironclan Online

Hi

I ve been playing sins multiplayer for a few weeks now with no problems, however when i just tried joining a game that was full my game froze and i was kicked out of ICO. Now everytime i click on "ICO Internet multiplayer" button it comes with a message "Disconnected from Ironclan Online".

I have looked on the forums and couldnt really find a solution that worked. I have tried verifying integrety of game cache through steam and it did re-downloaded a new single 848b file. However it has not fixed the problem and when i try to verify it again  it comes with a "1 files failed to validate and will be reacquired". It keeps re-downloading the same file everytime.

Probably not relevant but i checked that my ICO port in setting file is indeed set to 8000.

Also:

Pinging ico2.stardock.com [74.204.71.200] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 74.204.71.200:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

JinglyGoo