It’s taking almost a minute to load anything on here; ran a speakeasy through all hubs and averaged 15Megs download and 3.8M upload — the problem is in FR and its servers.
This seems to be specific to certain geographic areas, but I can't explain how its happening.
Two weeks ago I experienced a similar problem accessing a server in Chicago. They were experiencing no problems at all. It just affected certain eastern states.
Could secondaries be down? Perhaps some really bad rerouting? Not sure.
BTW just got back from work, and I could only get on by typing in my /perl/pings. Didn't know if that would work because I received a proxy error on that previously.
The home page http://www.freerepublic.com/home.htm seems to work fine, as do most of the links with the exception of course /tag/*/index