Good lord... I swear, people, this really is the truth: you could have a million dollar behemoth of a computer that's so fast it could crack all of our PGP encrypted addresses by brute force in a matter of minutes, and it still wouldn't load Silk Road any faster than a barely-still-working Pentium 1 from the 1990s.Tor hidden services (that's what Silk Road is) aren't as easy to interact with as typical sites. You connect to several different computers in order to get to Silk Road. If any of the links between you and the site are slow, Silk Road is going to appear that slow. You literally are probably bouncing your connection through Germany, India, Switzerland, and God knows where else on the way to Silk Road. Making sure you can actually connect to Silk Road, while still making sure nobody can actually find the damn thing, isn't all that simple to accomplish. Think about it -- there has to be essentially no way to find the server, but your connection still has to find the server to connect to it. I mean it's amazing it works at all.It could be loading instantly for me and be slow as molasses for you because you're in a different location and your Tor program chose a different path to get to SR. That's not *always* why it's slow or unstable, but it is frequently. That means the server could be just as fast as all of Google's put together, and it may not make any difference at all.