I too see the system seems extremely slow sometimes.
Both in games and when reading forums, news, about competitions, leader board and so on.
Often the meter bar jumps like a rabbit. Often the screen freeze in the middle of a stroke.
I tried both on a direct connection and through a proxy connection. The latter is the worst.
When many players is on, the speed decrease, so you might need more hw.
But thanks for the game. I enjoy it.
Tom