JonJonz

Almost every app I have tried including Testmy.net tell me I have wonderful above average internet speed. The reality is that the poor performance I frequently see seems to be related to long delays in the DNS lookup phase. I keep an extended status line app running in Firefox and very often it can take 20 seconds before any data starts flowing from many popular websites. Is this due to DNS lag or is it the response of the websites themselves? Is there any way to test this? Popular websites where I see this: Youtube, Yahoo, Steam, Google Docs, GOG, etc. I have tired both Open DNS and Googles DNS versus my ISP's DNS with little to no difference in performance.