To try to provide some more details, and since yesterday was a light workday due to the holiday, I did some monitoring. Hopefully you can compare my report to the network traffic logs or something to narrow down the issue. This really is making FT pretty unusable as you can see below:

These times are all in EST, but you can convert to local time zone.

10:28 was able to view FT pages
10:31 FT stopped responding
11:31 gave up trying and went to lunch
13:15 came back and continued trying but still no joy
14:19 FT responding again
14:40 FT stopped responding
15:32 FT started responding
15:34 stopped responding
17:19 gave up and went home