Ever heard of peak time ?
I'm browsing through our forums for a long time now to say that this phenomenon happens to us each days, it is approximatively on 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm (gmt + 1) and it happens during the night again but i don't know exactly when as I'm usually sleeping
During the day (work time) there is a maximum of 10 users connected and it is very fast, obviously.
This effect could be due to the US visitors who just woke up and come visit us, or when the australians return from work.... who knows exactly... Even if you would have a 10 gigabyte connection to internet, it won't go faster during peak times. This is due to the number of request per second the server has to reply. That means we need more bandwith from our ISP, the bottleneck is not on your side but rather on our.
So, i'll join toadlife's arguments and say that we need to buy more bandwith (if it is even possible), but we already spent a lot for the hardware, Wolfsbane could talk about this for long. We are now looking to restore the patrons system as our ISP gave us written permissions to recieve donations from our members.
To temporary solve the problem, try to visit us on another period of the day, if it is possible, or just be patient, sorry :-\