Education is a neglected part of life, online and in the real world. If you look at some gaming and movie website and servers, you'll definitely notice they get higher priority in bandwidth and speed. I mean no one cares about 'unexciting' or boring nerds talking about school and assignments, in real life or online. Plus nerds only make up a very small part of all students in the country.
Why would someone care about "nerds" complaining about slow speeds when d/loading assignments and trial papers, when d/loading exciting Half-life 2 movies or getting the best ping on UT2004 servers are "obviously" the higher order and much more popular, therefore given the higher priority.
There is nothing u can do about this; unless someone sympathetic donates their PC as a server for this site. About the problem, they should put the files and the forum on separate servers. Can anyone suggest / do something better?