I am sure those in Europe are feeling frustrated by this phenomenon, and those of us who rise early in the eastern side of NAmerica are suffering equally. While FT may have resolved most of its server problems, it is clear all is still not well.

I have found reasonable speed has returned during midday and evening hours [Eastern time zone in NAmerica] but in the early hours -- while you folks in Colorado are rightly dozing away soundly -- the site crawls along as slowly as ever. It can take up to 10-minutes to deal with a PM, and four to five just post access and read a single thread!

In this case, it cannot be caused by a high-demand assault on the servers, as I doubt there are more than a few dozen FTers who would be regularly using the site on the other side of the Atlantic. Nor that many, like myself who are checking in between 4am and 7am, as we have returned from trips to the other side, but our bodies have yet to realize we've home again.

So take this as a suggestion that someone out there at the House of Miles set the alarm to 2am MT and check the site out at that hour to see what we're enduring.