It's interesting how this works. See, before the software update early last year, the forum was always lightning fast for me. But I saw lots of people complaining in tech support, and they often seemed to be in the Northern middle and eastern USA. But here in Southern Ontario Canada, it was not a problem. Then after the software update, for a period of time, those who had issues before seemed to be expressing is was mostly resolved for them. Yet I started noticing some slow down, and page load errors, whereas I had not before. And it's only in the last month or so that I have found it to be a real drag at times.
I hope this info helps at all.