I've noticed it a lot today. Some pages don't want to fully load, or even load at all, and everything just seems generally slow. I switched computers and my internet connection to no avail. It seems to spike randomly and then clear up out of nowhere.
You are worrying about lag? There are serious things going on in the world. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...s-claim-biblical-Rapture-coming-April-23.html
I'll let Ribald explain to you how bandwidth works (hint: it's not like you sucking up the last of your large Sonic milk shake).
Sometime toward the end of November 2009 the site began experiencing a lag, as well as a large drain on the overall spirit, sort of like a gray cloud of some sort. Haven't quite narrowed down the source, just the approximate time, near abouts the 29th.
Bummer. I liked it when we used to exceed the bandwidth and it would send you an email every single time. We used to sit there holding down F5, good times.