Is there anything I can change in my profile or setting to increase the speed of the forums? At times they can be brutal slow for me and if I check other web sites everything seems fine. Are there other skins or whatnot I can try?

Not sure if there is something that can be changed but figured it can't hurt to ask.

The forums go nice and fast for me. I use FireFox. Hopefully you aren't using Internet Explorer as your browser? If so, that's 99% of the problem right there.

Firefox here too. Will check for an update then.

No updates.

That happens to me too, not very often though. When it does happen, the forums move at a ridiculously slow snail pace. Like back to the days of dialup internet.

I get that a lot. Dial up speedage. Plus if I try to open a couple threads at the same time, I get timed out about 40-50% of the time.

But other websites and forums are zooming open for me if I check them to see if it is my side of the interwebs.

I wish I knew what to tell you. I sometimes have 15 or more tabs open, with multiple being the TWB forum, and yet it just hums along nicely for me. Is your computer really old?