I've notice recently that accessing FlyerTalk is talking much longer than it used to. I didn't realize it at first, but it appears to be some ad agency connection that displays the little adverts throughout Flyertalk that is causing the problems

I don't mind the adverts, but it now takes anywhere from 15-90 seconds, to load FlyerTalk pages. The screen just stays blank while the status line displays:

Looking up host: adforce.imgis.com or
Looking up host: ad.preferences.com.

It's quite annoying, and making FlyerTalk unusable. I tried setting my AtGuard to block adforce, but they've cleverly figured out how to defeat such utilities.

However, I have discovered that if I hit the [Esc] key as soon as I see the adforce messages, the FlyerTalk screens pop up, without the advertisments.