Recently I've been finding this happens pretty often - things just freeze up, and typically I'll get a "connection timed out" message. So I go to my home page, where I have links (marked here, here etc)to all the Mudcat servers (ragtime, loki, shorty, dharma and www) , and Mudcat Help as well.

I just open up all four (or five, including the www link), in separate windows, and use the one which opens up quickest. And if none of them open up I open up Help to check if other people are having the same problems.

I also try to make a point of saving any long post I have written on my clipboard, before trying to send it,in case it crashes.

Doing it that way it's a pretty minor nuisance.