>I usually keep the UT tab on my machine active in FF, so the login page speed has no comparison data here. But on my machine UT operation seems to be slowed down lately - just loading the next message seems to take a lot more time. No hard data available, sorry...

I can see those stats.

Since two days, everything should be ok. I have not seen any latency on the queries since 48 hours. If you still have it, you may let me know when and I will check it to see if it is related on the process of the hit or the Internet.