Despite the fact that the connection problems seem to be solved by now:
Shepherd-server is running 2.15, I've been told. I think that this should be explicitely mentioned
somewhere, since at least Mosehansen's and Reverend Zombie's Servers are still running under 2.14, so I assume that quite a few players might have not updated yet as well (to avoid differences within battle-replays). And since 2.15 also claims to fix network problems...
(Sorry, but eventually I could not resist to post this little stupid warning...
)