> Hello... I'm having a problem downloading 
> www.boardgamegeek.com... it goes quite a long ways, and I 
> keep it on the default settings... but eventually I get 
> a 'forbidden' error... and seem to get banned by the site 
> or something. What do you think? Is it just a matter of 
> lowering my max transfer rate... which is at the standard 
> 25000... or could it be something else?
Yes, I strongly suspect that the standard 25K/s is too 
high - you may lower it to 10K ; AND also set only 1 
simultaneous connection (cgi pages can overload servers)