FWIW, over the weekend I was experiencing slowness not just on the MacRumors boards but elsewhere on the net. It got so bad, I reset my router and modem several times, thinking the problem must be local -- to no effect. So I did a bit of research (tracerouting to sites that were giving me problems) and found a number of poor response times and even outright drop-outs in the hops. It was back to normal by midday Sunday, PST. I think this "perfect storm" might have been even more perfect than it seemed from the perspective of MacRumors users.