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I connect to the internet via cable with a relatively slow AMD 2000+ processor and Zone Alarm, SpySweeper, Avast antivirus, and sundry obscure programs I haven't bothered to remove. I just timed accessing this thread and from first click to read was around 10 seconds. Lately, I haven't noticed any marked slowness although eariler there definitely was. My cable IPS isn't particularly fast at +/- 10mps. High speed connections outside the US tend to be faster so I continue to wonder about the sit's slowness when accessed outside the US. Perhaps all the connections are being intercepted by Carnivore.