Anyone having trouble with initial access to the forum?

I’m still not convinced that the Chinese traffic isn’t causing problems. The firewalls have blocked over 250,000 hits from China in the last 24 hours. Having said that the forum seems pretty responsive to me most of the time. When it’s sluggish I find that other sites are sluggish to which suggests it’s my connection rather than the forum.

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