FT is loading fine for me, not just now but also in the last couple days/weeks.

For the slow system problem, you should check in with the other ongoing thread (as followed). It had been happening every now and then since January this year, but I think IB has been working on it and we did see some improvement in the last 2 weeks or so. (Of course, the IB beta search still have (plenty of) room to be desired. )

Timing Out, System Generally Slow

Well, I saw your posts in the above thread as well. As a matter of fact, nobody has any "new" complaint in that thread since 2/22/08. Don't take it personally, it seems you are the only one who has been running into this slowness problem. Could it be something infected in your system that's causing it? I know some viruses will slow down the computers in general.

Is FT the only website you are running into problem?