It was working fine for me earlier (about 2 hours ago, maybe 3.) Now it's having some issues. However, when I get a 502 (not uncommon for me at other times) I can refresh instantly, and it works after a few tries. I don't think it's unusable, but it helps that there's only one mod I'm downloading today. DL speed seems not unreasonable, I estimate it's around 1.3 Mb/s (considering it took 30s to DL 15% of Falskaar's ~500mb bulk.) That's a decent DL speed, although I've seen higher on Nexus.

Only the Skyrim Nexus, mind. The others I've tried are fine.

Nexus has been under a Denial of Service ( DoS ) attack today

http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/1037225-forbidden/

Yeah, Skyrim Nexus appears to have completely died for me. The INSTANT I try to access it now I get a 502. It no longer even sits there 'trying' for like 10-30 seconds, it just instantly goes to 502 no matter what. :F

Well, it's after 5 in the Eastern Time Zone in the US; they're probably getting a huge upsurge in traffic as people start getting home from work.

Well that explains it.

That has happen before remember and I think it was about 2 years ago or so when Nexus was almost *dead*, but then Krystal the hosting company that DarkOne has hosted Nexus on came to his rescue back then.

I think he still has Nexus hosted on Krystal, but I'm not sure about that.