Are you on dialup? I find the speed VERY acceptable with cable. Also when you find it slow, How many people are on?
I'm on a 56k dail-up, and the speed is fine for me. I do expect it to be a little slow, since I load about 3-6 treads on new pages at a time, but it's very comparable to other boards I visit.
The one page I find the slowest is the BYOAC message forum index page, but it's not to bad either. It just seems slow since I'm not reading anything yet.
56k modem, Netscape 6.2.1