I'm not. That is an entirely different subject than I was addressing.
FR was in the lowest 1/4 of sites for load speed earlier today...now sped up to top 30%:
https://tools.pingdom.com/#!/yFfVC/http://www.freerepublic.com
Use the San Jose, CA server as that eliminates 95% of the “Internet” (routers, etc.) because the FR server is also in the San Jose area.
Okay, then. Good on you. Hope your issues resolve themselves.