I have a cable connection. Is it normal that most of the sites take like 5 seconds before starting to load. I mean I click on a link, then the progress bar start raising slowly, like if it was searching a unexistant page, and then start loading. Most of the time it take less than a second to load after it searched the page, but it shouldn't take that much time to find a webpage with a cable connection. However this site works fine. I noticed it by clicking on the "forum" section of Legendaryfrog.com and in most of the the places in Newgrounds.com. If you have a cable connection maybe you could try it and tell me if it's normal. Oh, and when it's searching the page, the DATA light of my modem box doesn't light, but it does light while loading the page. PS: This isn't a hidden Legendaryfrog.com and Newground.com promotion. Don't start flaming me or banning me or anything. These sites are already popular enough they don't need hidden promotions. I'm not lying I noticed the problem in these sites.

Some busy sites and some very busy links can cause this type of problem. But it would not occur all the time. You have XP. Do you have its built-in Firewall enabled? Have you installed a software Firewall? Do you have a hardware firewall between the modem and your system? Some web sites send a query back to your IP addresses port 113 to verify the source of the page request. If port 113 is blocked for some reason, the system has to timeout before if gives up and sends the page anyway. Some sites don't send anything if they don't get a response from this query. So if you have some combination of firewalls, your system may not be responding to this request. Try your slow site, then turn off all firewalls, starting with any hardware firewall, software firewall and XP's fire wall, and see if this has any effect.

Yes I have XP and Firewalls. I will check that. Thanks.