Hi HalloweenWeed,
Can you try this version of Minion? It has some code that is a little more friendly to high latency connections.
Uninstall the current version of Minion and install 2.0.13-alpha-hl. If you get further in and Minion asks you to update please ignore the update (Update Later). Minion is only noticing the version you are running is different than what is currently live and wants to make it the same. Even though you are running a newer version.
If this works for you then I think the fix will be simple to roll out into our normal beta release.
Thanks for your help!