Depending on the hour (I guess higher or lower activity), it's been sometimes almost impossible to reach any page from Western Europe during this last week on the Oblivion / Morrowind part of the site. But "with great power comes great responsibility". :P I'm really happy and thankful about the service that Dark0ne has been providing for years, but when one reaches a near complete monopoly, I think it's one's responsibility to make sure it's reachable by all. In my case I've only very little time to play when I can, and it's frustrating not to be able to update my mods or add new ones because the site is down/too slow most of the time - it's not a hobby/service type of thing now anymore, it's a business which makes money, so it should behave like a business too. (Luv ya still though :P). But it did make me wonder, what if the situation worsens, or one thing or another makes him stop the site. With no other alternative anymore, it'd become a total pain for a good while. That's the annoying part with monopolies. He could, for example, force everyone to use his downloader if he wanted (cnet anyone?), and due to the monopoly situation, we couldn't do anything about it. Not talking about him though, he wouldn't do that, but illustrating the annoyances of monopolies. Aside from that, if it can be of any use, I was surprised to see how Opera (the browser) helps a lot. I don't know if it's the opera turbo part or whatever, but often I can't reach anything with firefox but can reach the site (slowly) with opera - or it fetches the information fast but without graphics etc. I was amazed by the difference. Been switching to opera recently because of many little things like that, it has little functions that are awesome, and it's more secure than Firefox. Still I'd recommend using it as auxiliary browser, because it's only 5% of the market share or something, and some banks don't accept it for example (but you can still cloak it and make it appear as any other browser you want). Sadly not open source though, and less add-ons for special things.