Have a look at this thread: Painful lag without obvious reason
You have the client/server issue that @not_owen_wilson mentions. Do you have anti-virus dialed up too high? Firewall blocking certain things?
Try setting Stonehearth as “trusted” in your firewall to allow anything and everything. Easy way to test is to disable your wireless and/or LAN as well as your firewall and antivirus. I suggest disabling internet access in addition to firewall/antivirus as I wouldn’t want to be connected while having a firewall down.