Thanks for the help testing. I think what we will do is add a configuration paramater to the minion.xml that allows people with high latency connections to disable the network check. So the next live release (I'll let you know) will just need you to add something to the config file.
The no minion0.log worries me a little. Can you list all the files inside the .minion folder when Minion is running?
Minion uses file structure & folder names to match the addon to ones in our database. If we can find your minion log it will say what its doing with RAETIA info bar.
Thanks
