That's an interesting conundrum, Fred. I don't know why one person would have difficulty getting to a particular site when someone else can get to it. That phenomenon is counter-intuitive; I'd expect that a site's performance would be the same for everybody.
Once upon a time, Beosboxboy was telling me about network collisions along the Eastern seaboard because all the traffic to the mid-Atlantic states goes through a single node in Maryland. Still, that's not how the net is supposed to work; it should search for a route for every data packet that it carries even if it has to route traffic all way around the world and back.
Well, anyhow, of course you're welcome to hang out here. Sun Sims is a relatively quiet little board but we're as sincere as Linus's pumpkin patch!
Rose, how do you turn off Flash?