You cannot claim your coins until the end of the period/day. You may check my other articles as they may help with your problem. I find most of the time, the EOS ICO price ends up the same before the period

Most of these transactions are not spam, they are issuing a claimall function to the contract to claim your share(s) of EOS token(s) you have transferred ETH for. TLDR/Short explanation: When an user clicks

Shouldn't be, the periods show fine for me. That said, EOS.IO has put up their own RPC server now! Try in place of

I believe a transaction needs to be confirmed/mined to count in that window. As stated on eos.io, "On the Ethereum blockchain, timing of block production is determined by proof of work so block production

I will give you a direct download link for now, which would probably make things easier: Alternatively, you can edit your windows host file as an Administrator (usually C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts)

An alternative, as someone suggested, for those who don't want to install anything and rather trust a 3rd party RPC server, is to use (follow steps 9-12, but instead of using use this server)

Is parity fully synced?

Thank you, hope it helps. Let me know if you have any problems.