Well I'm glad mrestey is doing ok, because nothing has changed here at my end. It took a few tries to even begin a download, which was still at 90 kb/s, and pages are still loading slow. I don't see how it can be a traffic thing. When I joined here beck in 2006-07, online artists would typically be 5000 to 6000 and I rarely noticed any speed of download issues. These days if it goes over 2000 it's rare and regardless of the amount of "artists online" my download speeds do not change nor has the recent issue of pageloads changed either. I fully intend on looking in to see if things change, but I literally cannot upload, download or browse without everything taking an extra 2-5 minutes or timing out. I thnk this is pathetic and frankly irresponsible at this point.