Originally Posted by
serpens
A bit off-topic, but related.
The problem I have is latency. I tell my browser to go to a new page (on FT, for instance), and the old page vanishes immediately but there is a short pause before the contents of the new page appear. When I run a speed test, I see the same thing. It starts off slow and then ramps up. Is this a computer, router, or ISP issue? And really, it's a small issue. The delay is usually under one second. But I do notice it, both with web pages and speed test.
The ISP says I should buy a faster connection, but the connection is plenty fast for my purposes when I get the rated speed. It's the delay in getting the rated speed that I notice. Am I just too impatient?
I would test your DNS servers. A slow lookup behaves exactly like you describe. Sometimes changing DNS servers can make a world of difference. I like to use this tool to test.
https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm By default most ISPs use their own dns servers,..and those are very hit or miss, more miss than hit imo.
I use pfsense as my internal dns server and have it forward requests to 1.1.1.1 or 1.0.0.1. Those are cloud flares dns servers and they have the best speed vs privacy trade off of any of the major providers IMO (although I haven’t “shopped” in a while). I used to use quad9 before that and level 3 before that. I would never use googles servers because Google already knows way too much about me and I don’t need them knowing every Internet address we lookup.