I'm in Dallas County, and this is about the twitchiest I've ever seen FR. Half the time I can't get a page to load on the first try, and even when it does work, it sometimes takes nearly a minute for the page to load.
I use the Firefox browser and get my high speed connection on a copper wire from my provider. This is the only site I'm consistently having trouble with.
I seriously wish JohnRob would reconsider allowing some of our excellent professional IT folks to help him fix this. I'm mighty afraid that FR won't be available at all, come election night.
I keep getting timed out and stuff, but I love this site so much I don't mind reloading most of the time.
It's definitely not my connection:
Didn't know that was the case... just recently read that JimRob said JohnRob wasn't even talking to him. Sad.
I would think a donation of professional talent would go a heck of a lot further toward fixing this dying website than throwing dollars at it.