I'm not sure that I have the tools to provide useful info, but often the problems with speed are either with the initial connection, or part-way through the process. I'm thinking I'd need to be gathering data at the TCP/IP level. I've had things stall when posting a message to the thread, but that message turns out to be there. I suspect packets are being dropped somewhere. It seems unlikely to be local to me, or it would affect more sites, but there's a vast and tangled ocean between here and there.