@Brad: From my perspective the issue is not one of absolute speed, rather, it's the inconsistancy of responses. I can be happily pottering away and then suddenly experience a 10-20 second delay often followed by a 'Server Timed Out' or 'Database Error'. More often than not the extended response time issue lasts for about 5 - 10 minutes and then returns to 'normal' (ie acceptable). Also, when replying to a Thread it appears to 'hang' but on re-opening the Thread the reply has actually been posted - I guess that's why some duplicates are happening, people may be clicking on the 'Post Reply' again after waiting a minute or so.

I am sure that those of us who have had to deal with these sorts of problems in our Professional lives understand just how difficult they are to sort out and unless it's something 'really silly' will take some time to resolve. The most recent one I had to deal with was tracked down to someone having connected 3 servers to an old 10 Base T Ethernet switch instead of the Gigabit switch (That went into the 'silliest of silly' folder!)