[Jim Robinson]

Not planning on going down, but we’re already running slow and we’re still a week out from the elections.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Well, as many of us Florida Freepers gather on Election Night, we’ll continue to monitor this site for updates. Quite a big “to-do” next Tuesday!

[Road Warrior ‘04]

BTW, everything seems to run faster and better on Firefox. I have FR up on IE and also on Firefox and Firefox is way outperforming IE.

[tomkat]

I ran / posted tracerts on two of the debate threads, with similar results confirmed by info posted by others, and the nodes at ntt.net (mainly) and verio.net (lesser extent) have consistently been a huge drag on transit times.

. . not to mention the frequent time-outs on the Chicongo hubs

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[re_nortex]

Not planning on going down, but we’re already running slow and we’re still a week out from the elections.

While the tip about the other sites is very much appreciated, nothing beats the Real McCoy. I must be in the minority since I can't even recall (if ever) the last occasion when Free Republic has 404'd or 503'd. The clean layout and John's code makes FR the must-read, go-to address on the web for fast-breaking, accurate news and informed Conservative opinion. Free Republic has been dependable and, like a privately-owned water, utility, it's consistently always on when I need it. For what it's worth, I use Firefox 16.0.2 (compiled from source) on a homegrown Linux platform where I run my own nameserver.

I did hope over to freerepublic2 to take a peek. There are a lot of puffed-up, self-proclaimed "experts" and would-be consultants. No thanks! You and John are doing a tremendous job against all odds and I think any outsider would merely muck up a good thing. After all, this is the site that brought down Dan Rather and will eject Obama from office. Neither yahoo nor facebook have that kind of influence.