HELP! "The operation timed out" error message is DRIVING ME NUTS!

I’ve been having issues creating projects on my VCC. Sometimes it wants to work, but most times no. It will either state “The operation timed out” despite creating a project folder, or take forever to create. I am direct ethernet and my internet speeds are very fast, but not sure why it’s not connecting to VCC properly.

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Also, in existing projects, if I go to manage project, it never fully loads my packages in the project.

I have tried deleting the Repos and the Json files like other solutions have stated online, I have tried deleting and redownloading VCC, I have tried my firewall settings and that worked for a while but now it’s doing the same thing again, and I have tried as much as I can within command prompts but I am not that smart with system coding. Can someone please help? I just want to go back to uploading avatars again, man.