PHP / MySQL - possible compression issue

[megarock]

I have had this problem before and each time I end up stumbling across the solution eventually - but once again I can't figure it out. Here's the issue:

 

I have my website hosted on a VPS and there is a section of the site used to make requests to an online radio station. It pulls from a MySQL database on a remote server at my house and then renders the page. Problem is apparently it needs to compress the data coming from the mysql server. I am able to pull very small amounts of data but most items take a very long time to pull or just outright fail and on the mysql end I get 'writing to net' on the mysql server end.

 

I've gone through this enough times it should be simple but from what my tired brain tells me it's a compression issue of some sort and since it's not doing that the data takes too long to transfer and it times out.

 

Hopefully my ramblings make sense?