Uploading to Photobucket can be slow at times. When I'm at home, on my own Internet connection, it can take minutes to upload a single file.
As far as accessing the site goes, I have a paid subscription, which suppresses all of the ads PB has. I understand that for those folks who use the free space there, the ads have become a burden, slowing down linking, and making accessing the site a very user-unfriendly experience indeed. They also cause problems with our web filter here at work; when I visit various web pages and see posts with images stored at PB, the images don't load. PB doesn't know that it's me, a paid subscriber, so our web filter detects some of the ad content and blocks the image.
Prost!
Brad