Check this out-I came along a month ago as well and I went through some hard times with the darts on this site not to mention days of not even hitting the board. What I did, which seemed to help, was cleared out the browsers extra unneeded tool bars, the excess baggage and search add-ons as well as deleted old files, deleted the temp files, cleared the cookies, history and my cache! I also did it for the other browser as well cause that will sometimes be faster in the event the one that I like is not participating! I also have shockwave crashes alot with the one I like. Most of the time the server is having trouble it is just as often the other player who is loosing the connection but for the most part I have been back and playing well with no loss for the connections and even though it may not have anything to do with what you are asking here but I did have similar just this past week was really bad and doing that seemed to help. Good luck in darts...Laura