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Current Problem: I cant seem to be able to play online. My only option with the big button in the bottom of the launcher is "Play Offline". I want to play on a minecraft server and I can't connect to it in offline mode. There seems to be an error in my development console which I have included below. I would like to know if this is a problem with my computer and if so, how I could go about fixing / troubleshooting it. Efforts are very much appreciated.

Below is a copy of my development console. This is everything that is printed to the console when the application is launched. I haven't clicked anything in the application, this is just on the launch.

Launcher 1.2.1 (through bootstrap 4) started on windows...
Current time is Aug 20, 2013 10:59:40 PM
System.getProperty('os.name') == 'Windows 7'
System.getProperty('os.version') == '6.1'
System.getProperty('os.arch') == 'amd64'
System.getProperty('java.version') == '1.7.0'
System.getProperty('java.vendor') == 'Oracle Corporation'
System.getProperty('sun.arch.data.model') == '64'
Delta time to compare resources: 291 ms
Download job 'Resources' skipped as there are no files to download
Job 'Resources' finished successfully
Loaded 2 profile(s); selected 'mcunite'
Refreshing auth...
Logging in with access token
net.minecraft.launcher.authentication.exceptions.AuthenticationException: Cannot contact authentication server
at net.minecraft.launcher.authentication.yggdrasil.YggdrasilAuthenticationService.makeRequest(YggdrasilAuthenticationService.java:128)
at net.minecraft.launcher.authentication.yggdrasil.YggdrasilAuthenticationService.logInWithToken(YggdrasilAuthenticationService.java:94)
at net.minecraft.launcher.authentication.yggdrasil.YggdrasilAuthenticationService.logIn(YggdrasilAuthenticationService.java:51)
at net.minecraft.launcher.Launcher.ensureLoggedIn(Launcher.java:213)
at net.minecraft.launcher.Launcher$2.run(Launcher.java:182)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: connect timed out
at java.net.TwoStacksPlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(Unknown Source)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.<init>(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.New(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getOutputStream(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getOutputStream(Unknown Source)
at net.minecraft.hopper.Util.performPost(Util.java:30)
at net.minecraft.launcher.authentication.yggdrasil.YggdrasilAuthenticationService.makeRequest(YggdrasilAuthenticationService.java:109)
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