Travel Technology - What causes download "hang-ups"?

I guess that is what they are called.... for instance...when I log onto FT the top banner appears quite quickly but the body of the website might take an excruciatingly long 3 or 4 seconds.... happens with other websites as well.

Is this just the nature of the web or is there something I need to tweak in my settings?

Thanks.

could just be network latency/lag, but could also be a design problem - web pages that are giant tables can load slowly if the browser loads the entire table before displaying it.

I guess that is what they are called.... for instance...when I log onto FT the top banner appears quite quickly but the body of the website might take an excruciatingly long 3 or 4 seconds.... happens with other websites as well.

Is this just the nature of the web or is there something I need to tweak in my settings?

Thanks.

There are a few things going on that might make a difference.

Chances are that the actual FT "shell" and the forums are on different servers. Even if they are not referenced seperatly from the internet, there is at least a database call happening that may take some time. Also, a lot of the content, such as the ADs, doesn't come FT at all...and that could be faster or slower.

Well this just poped up on my radar and its seems like great timing for this thread
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