I think I'd leave it automatic. You can always over ride it with a host file. See to me it's almost getting lost going to kh.google.com. I do not know what is causing this problem but it's obvious that there is a problem with there server. Computers that cannot connect can connect using a different ISP. So it's not the computer.
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