2 hours later and i'm more than happy to report that i too am "browsing around the various games on the network without a care in the world, split-seconds of loading times between each click." also downloading manually w/o issue. so as of now this post is no longer applicable, at least in my case. i will no longer be monitoring it for replies...especially those from the peanut gallery. navigation has been extremely slow, as in just over a minute to load a page. last night it perked up a little bit but this morning it's back to a crawl. sometimes when trying to download manually just after bringing up the server list i click on my choice and get sent to a page that has nothing on it but the address starts with 'fs3.", page being completely white. other times instead of the server list i get a smaller red box letting me know that an error has occurred. and finally, at least half of my manual downloads don't fully download, it says completed but nothing will open it and a check of the filesize shows a discrepancy. i've checked it from my side by downloading random from filehippo, sourceforge and download.com and everything works just fine. most recent problem was with "Real Ice ALL-IN-ONE Installer by morpheas768-5388-V3". it downloaded 20 of 23 mb and claimed finished. a second try netted a complete download. apologies if this is the wrong place for this, if you'll be so kind as to point me to the right place i'll put it over there. thanks and good luck with sorting out the issues, i look forward to the excellent seamless site i discovered just a short time ago that introduced me to the world of modding TESV.