Hi, > Is that unusually slow or typical of access flex.a.o from Australia?
Generally typical. Anything from the US has at least a 200-300ms lag to travel the ocean. The web site takes 10 seconds to load without being cached and 1 second when cached. Looking at the requests it the latency (500-700ms odd) not the download speed that the issue. And thats with a reasonably fast connection in Sydney, there are places where it would be a lot worse (and not just in Australia). Justin