Same issue We have a private shard from vilayer as well have tried uninstalling and re installing persistence and still no fix

I am experiencing the same issue on both my machines I have verified game files and gone as far as updating my java my system specs are

CPU Arch : 1 CPU - 4 Cores - 8 Threads
CPU PSN : Intel Core i7-3820 CPU @ 3.60GHz
CPU EXT : MMX, SSE (1, 2, 3, 3S, 4.1, 4.2), EM64T, VT-x, AES, AVX
CPUID : 6.D.7 / Extended : 6.2D
CPU Cache : L1 : 4 x 32 / 4 x 32 KB - L2 : 4 x 256 KB
CPU Cache : L3 : 10240 KB
Core : Sandy Bridge-E (32 nm) / Stepping : C2

Freq : 1200.02 MHz (100 * 12)

MB Brand : Gigabyte
MB Model : G1.Assassin2
NB : Intel Sandy Bridge-E rev 07
SB : Intel X79 rev 05

GPU Type : AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
GPU Clocks : Core 1000 MHz / RAM 1375 MHz
DirectX Version : 11.0

RAM : 32768 MB DDR3
RAM Speed : 666.7 MHz (1:10) @ 9-9-11-24

Found A solution follow these instructions.
found this in the forums and it fixed my issue

Default Reset Winsock in Windows 7 / 8

Winsock, is a technical specification that defines how Windows network software should access network services, especially TCP/IP.

Windows comes with Dynamic Link Library (DLL) called winsock.dll that implements the API and coordinates Windows programs and TCP/IP connections.

But sometimes Windows Sockets or Winsock may get corrupted as a result of whcih you may not be able to connect to the Internet. It may therefore need to be repaired.

Reset Winsock

To reset Winsock in Windows 7, open CMD as admin, type the following and hit Enter.

netsh winsock reset

If you are using IPv4, type netsh int ipv4 reset and hit Enter. If you use ipv6, type netsh int ipv6 reset and hit Enter.

If you'd like to generate a log file of the changes, append a logfile path to the above command, eg. netsh winsock reset c:\winsocklog.txt.

You will have to restart your computer.

Do remember to create a system restore point first.

Microsoft Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 introduce new Windows Sockets programming elements. A set of high-speed networking extensions are available for increased networking performance with lower latency and jitter. You can read more about this on MSDN.

Incidentally, our freeware FixWin 2 for Windows 8, let you reset Windows Store Cache, in a click. Reset TCP/IP or Internet Protocol in Windows 7 may also interest you.