Hello,
PS : you also should check your firewall settings.
You should also check your anti-virus-software. Look through the blocked files and if the allods files are blocked, create an excpetion for those. If your internet connection works well, this:
However, I keep getting a message saying the my connection broke and a connection could not be established.
Means, that something is probably blocking your allods files (missing rights, firewall, antivirus etc.).
Edit: Ok, seems that you already found a solution.