I took a look at this website. Interesting. There is a whole library of programs/tools including Perl API's oriented towards clients submitting jobs automatically and checking on the results. There are special API's for this. I didn't see quickly an API for the translators, but there may indeed be such a thing?

Have you thought about talking with these folks and explaining your situation and the fairness issue with you being overseas? If these guys are smart they will set up an API just for you folks (the translators). Anybody who uses that API will have a huge advantage over somebody looking at a webpage or interpreting webpages continuously as you are doing (will be much faster than 4 seconds).

I suppose the company will set up some sort of algorithm to decide how the jobs get distributed, probably not based upon sub-second response times. That seems inevitable if there are as many translators competing as your post indicates. If you get in there and ask about this, you have a chance of influencing the algorithms to your benefit, perhaps the accuracy of your translations and customer satisfaction or whatever. Basically you want to get this on an allocation basis that doesn't depend upon light-speed internet access where your connection puts you at a disadvantage.

If you continuously load this page and this causes performance problems for the company, they will figure it out.

It just seems odd to me that the company has spent so much effort on multi-language API's for clients that there wouldn't already be an API for the translators.