I've been having the same problem that everyone else has been discussing and tried all of the various solutions here to no avail.
I eventually solved the problem by adjusting the settings on my AVG firewall. This may sound very obvious but I never considered it until seeing references in other posts about firewall interference. Since it has not been mentioned here, I thought I would let people know in case their connection problem is also a firewall problem.
Hopefully, this will help others.