>Today, I've been noticing a lengthy delay between entering my user name and password, and when the first page initially loads. The page partly loads, but to complete is taking about 20 seconds.
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>A couple of times I've really noticed this, there have been new replies, so after the page finishes loading I get the respective sound. I don't know if that's related.
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>Using FireFox 4.

I checked your log for today. The slowest hit was 0.3 second. So, obviously, the delay came from elsewhere. There was probably some bad routing and/or related delay between both ends. Let me know tomorrow how it works.