Over 40 kbytes/s over here and the forum loads like a bullet. It depends on the location or something, but this is definitely being solved already.
After demanding information from the admins, I guess it's time to start sympathizing with them because all the hard and altruistic work they've had to perform to sort this out. So congrats and THANKS to all the admins.
PS I hope it doesn't go back. I mean all the way --some additional maintenance bandwidth usage would be understandable.