Most of the time this site acts normal for me but when it doesn't, this is the time of evening that it most often doesn't.

About 10 minutes ago (11:25 PM PDT) I tried to preview a post. I had only one Firefox window open (and only one tab open in that window). I got a small amount of modem activity, then nothing. I tried again; same thing. I launched System Monitor (a Windows 98 utility -- dk if later versions have it too). It occasionally showed brief bursts of activity (Bytes transmitted: 413; Received: 41) then another long period of 0 and 0. I opened a second tab in Firefox and went to the "Forums" page on my way to Feedback & Technical Support. Similar delay. It was 11:28 before I got a response; at that point the pages in both tabs seemed to start loading at the same time. The "bytes received" stat went to 4 or 5 K for a few seconds (the normal figure when a page is loading successfully).

It looked to me as though most likely the server itself, but possibly the Internet between here and the server, was temporarily too busy to deliver my request or my pages and was telling me to be patient. Firefox does "time out," sometimes fairly quickly, while waiting for pages from other sites but when it's slow here it rarely does anything except wait quietly.

BTW, I'm currently connected via dialup at 50,666 bps -- my most common modem speed by far.