The reason the board has become slow lately for me is the advertising sites used. When I get hung trying to load pages, it's always at ad.yieldmanager.com or
www.tqlkg.com. If I try to ping either of those sites at the time it's hung, it just times out every time. Sometimes they work and will load ads quickly, while more often it seems like I can't even connect. The admins may want to look into it and try to contact the advertisers and see what's going on and see if they can either fix their servers or try to get new advertisers instead.