Here's a picture of what is happening:
Basically you can connect out to the server fine, but something is blocking it from sending certain things back to you. Hence the 30 second time out.
What you must do it find out what is blocking the connection. You either have some sort of gateway\router, a firewall program on your computer, an ISP that is blocking for some reason, or a combination thereof. After you find this out, we can help you further.
I did create an article to be put on J2Ov2, but I'm hosting it myself in the meantime. It may help:
http://link.idlegames.com/~cbruton/jj2_gateway.html
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