You might have received an error message a number of times while trying to access certain sections of this forum. It's basically a problem to do with the heavy traffic at the moment (database can't handle all of the connections). If you receive the message just wait a second, and then try again. Once the forum is moved to a permanent position, the problem will disappear. It is only due to the fact that this temporary spot obviously can't cope with the heavy demand being placed on it at the moment.
This is also the reason behind the slow speeds. Hopefully we won't have to worry about it for much longer, and we can really enjoy our bigger, better BT.