I feel you pain.
Can you try turning wi-fi off? There are some mad firewall problems on Python Mode.
If that doesn´t work, I’ve found a VirtualBox Linux Virtual Machine that you could use while we try to figure this WIndows issues. You would need to install VirtualBox.org and this OVA file:
(It came from the shoebot developers, I don’t know the user password, so I’ll try to create a new one soon)