Why not Invision power board?

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speed is also dependant on the server and the country it is located in.

The only problem with PHPBB at the moment is that it's in dire need of an update and PHPBB 3.0 should be released pretty soon.

yeah you are right hope phpbb 3.0 solves a lot problems and will be much more stable and faster just wait till its released i wanna have it to till now i only got php 2.1.0 on my webhost.

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i downloaded it before they started charging for it.

Then you're a security risk by using an older version.

IPB went lame by charging $$. The original goal of invisionboard was to provide a powerful and free BBS.