I notice in that log that the HTTP gets that the currency ticker does are also failing.
This can be if the MtGox server is busy (it just drops requests) but it can obviously also be caused by network problems.
Also in the log the number of peers it finds is always 14. Normally in the two seconds it spends looking up network peers I get 80+ and the number varies. My network is a laggy 3G connection.
Can you describe what your network setup is please ?
Fairly standard corporate connection. Here is a traceroute to google:
$ traceroute www.google.com 1 ↵
traceroute: Warning: www.google.com has multiple addresses; using 74.125.239.19
traceroute to www.google.com (74.125.239.19), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 192.168.85.1 (192.168.85.1) 0.571 ms 1.016 ms 0.433 ms
2 cpr-cbc-ws2-rtr.mwtn.net (66.62.70.33) 32.355 ms 23.231 ms 50.089 ms
3 unused.mwtn.net (66.119.55.89) 33.394 ms 37.770 ms 14.982 ms
4 cbc-cbc9-lnk.mwtn.net (66.62.71.73) 54.910 ms 23.515 ms 33.466 ms
5 cbc-gsr.mwtn.net (66.119.48.150) 34.954 ms 28.013 ms 19.874 ms
6 66.62.160.93 (66.62.160.93) 50.172 ms 28.976 ms 25.075 ms
7 den1-core-01-ae1.360.net (66.62.2.193) 29.738 ms 39.243 ms 36.213 ms
8 lax1-core-02-xe-3-0-0.360.net (66.62.2.174) 68.732 ms 59.549 ms 69.827 ms
9 google.com.any2ix.coresite.com (206.223.143.41) 110.151 ms 63.516 ms 64.764 ms
10 64.233.174.31 (64.233.174.31) 65.213 ms 182.785 ms 80.082 ms
11 216.239.43.148 (216.239.43.148) 54.831 ms 78.751 ms 54.192 ms
12 lax04s09-in-f19.1e100.net (74.125.239.19) 60.131 ms 76.823 ms 119.900 ms
I have recently changed how it looks up the Bitcoin network peers so that it does a DNS lookup of all the seed nodes in parallel (on different threads). I think I will have to adjust the algorithm a bit as I suspect that is what is causing you problems.
If you still have an old copy of multiBit 0.4.10 that would be a good test to see if that connnects ok. I made the peer lookup change in 0.4.11.
I did, and it exhibits the same (broken?) behavior so it doesn't look like it was peer lookup change. The logs looks pretty much the same so I didn't include it.
Sorry that you are an unvolunteered tester.
No worries, I don't mind. Thank you for the support.
EDIT: here is what I am getting for DNS results:
$ dig +short bitseed.xf2.org 130 ↵
212.7.0.70
46.19.139.106
62.75.216.13
69.64.34.118
69.64.46.74
69.164.196.4
87.139.154.234
91.121.66.59
91.121.120.119
177.71.186.54
184.174.133.70
204.9.55.71
207.164.207.29