Have you got any other programs running or any other internet using applications running? For some reason when I turn on the feature on msn that lets others see what music your listening too it slows down. Try a spyware search program that helped mine aswell, also when afters 18:00 you get all the cheap internet users on (parantly theres still a lot of deals using this) hope this helped.
Nice avaitor by the way dog soldiers rocks!!