performance issues when pinging for an acitve session

[Vortex2Oblivion]

Whenever i try and ping for an active session I'm experiencing a little bit of performance drops.
Is this normal?

if(Options.getData("gjUsername") != ""){
				var pingTimer:FlxTimer = new FlxTimer();
				pingTimer.start(30, function(_:FlxTimer){	
				trace("pinging..");		
				GJClient.pingSessions(Options.getData("gjUsername"), Options.getData("gjUserToken"), 'active', function(json:Dynamic){
					trace("found session!");
					}, 
					function(message:String){
						trace("No session found for: " + Options.getData("gjUsername"));
						trace("Retrying!...");
						GJClient.openSessions(Options.getData("gjUsername"), Options.getData("gjUserToken"), function(json:Dynamic){
							trace("Made a new session");
						}, function(message:String) // on Failure
						{
							trace("could not open a new session");
						});
					});
				},0);
			}

here is the code im using for checking for a session

[MAJigsaw77]

haxe.Http can lag when the connection is poor as it isn't async

[Vortex2Oblivion]

Wait so it's my crappy internet that's causing the issue?

[MAJigsaw77]

Wait so it's my crappy internet that's causing the issue?

Yeap

[Vortex2Oblivion]

That's fun