Now it's working fine again. There's some sort of weird communications problem going on. Now that I have my backup properly configured for my main miner, it'll automatically switch to mine if/when things go sour reaching p2pmining.com.
As of now, about 900m/h of my mining is routing locally because the server isn't responding fast enough.
Anyone else having this issue?
I was having similar issues but now that students are leaving/have left campus, I've gone from 10-20% stales to 3%.... I suspect a congested network really hampers P2Pool.