Background rarely loads

[Ken Case]

> The site that hosts that web page is only a couple hops away (it's
> on campus, just in a different building). I don't get any timeouts
> from here.

It's not the network bandwidth or latency that's at issue (certainly it  
responds quickly enough from here, when it does respond), but  
presumably overloading the server's CPU or network stack (in which case  
it doesn't respond at all until I retry).

				Ken