About 3-4 weeks ago Chrome came out with an update , which I downloaded. I noticed that it seemed to be slower in loading some sites that the older version ( morale of the story, if it ain't broke, don't fix it) Anyway, I forgot about that, and continued to use Chrome since I always like the faster action of it compared to Firefox and IE.
Yesterday, I decided to use Firefox which I used prior to getting Chrome, and I have noticed that with Firefox, I have not had one problem with slow loading times or having to hit the refresh so far, and I have made quite a few moves in online chess.
Now I am thinking that this may be a problem with the latest version of Chrome. 5.0.375.99 Will keep you informed...
honestly, that could be your local ISP with some bad routing tables. :( hrmm.... can you ask them? see that long lag at mindspring.com ?