With all of the posts on this thread, has SE acknowledged there is a problem officially? If not, Community Team, What are your thoughts?

When I talked to SE, the tech pointed me toward port forwarding saying that after updates they make changes to the ports they use. Every time I get a crash it is Event ID 1000 in event viewer which seems like a network error. I'm not sure because Microsoft did not have event ID 1000 defined. O.o