Connecting to Home Assistant Cloud

Hello folks!
I’m new to Home Assistant and just installed a few days ago (Home Assistant Green). I’ve noticed a few things:

  • When logging into some integrations, it takes a long time to complete (around 2+ min). What does this indicate? What can I do to debug?
  • Signing into Home Assistant Cloud is failing with the error “Unable to reach the Home Assistant cloud”. [I used this link] (Unable to reach the Home Assistant Cloud)
    to debug, but the IPv6 didn’t show any issues. How do I debug this effectively?

I feel like these two issues seem connected, but not entirely sure if they are? Has anyone had issues like this? What sort of guidance can you give someone who just started and what is the best way moving forward for debugging and understanding the system?

Thanks and excited to dive in!!!