How to describe this?

[Superman]

When pages load slowly when surfing around, what is that called? I'm talking about a long lag period from the time I click to load up a page, and when it actually loads. How would a tech communicate that? Page lag? And could that have to do with packet loss?

Thanks!

[Bounty]

It depends. Does the page loading hang on resolving the IP, getting a connection, or downloading the page?

[Superman]

It depends. Does the page loading hang on resolving the IP, getting a connection, or downloading the page?

Exactly!

How would I find out if the lag came from resolving the IP?

[DaveJB]

Ping the IP, if the destination server will let you. It'll tell you how quickly the IP address is being resolved.

[Superman]

Ping the IP, if the destination server will let you. It'll tell you how quickly the IP address is being resolved.

I can't ping, probably because of my firewall or network management program. I did make a discovery though; I ran PC Pitstop optimizer, and now my page load time is fine. It's like it's been super charged. Would that point to a problem with resolving the IP address?

[Bounty]

That depends on what exactly this Pitstop program does. Did it make a log of changes or is this one of those POS shareware dealies that has you pay $30 for tweaking a few settings that you can do yourself for free?

[Superman]

This is what it claims to do

# Deeper Registry Cleaning
# Firefox Internet Optimization
# Boost Local Network Performance
# Enhanced Internet optimization
# More System Performance Tweaks
# Cleans up unneeded Outlook files
# New Automatic update technology
# Subscription frequently adds new performance enhancements

It's at pcpitstop.com

[Bounty]

Unless you can find out what *precisely* that program does, you won't find the original fault, so... yay?