Why do I get good download speed, but horrible browsing speed?

Question

I have a LAN Internet connection, with a router in the room. I get very good (tested) download speeds but it takes about one minute to open up yahoo.com, for instance. This is ALMOST constant. For example it takes almost a minute to open up a Youtube page but when it does load, the clip is almost fully loaded. This happens on any browser, Firefox, IE, even Opera. My room-mate doesn't have this problem. I tried switching cables, IPs, everything (in the router). I even plugged the WAN cable straight into the LAN card (which, btw, is integrated on an ABIT motherboard). So I'm pretty sure it's something with my computer. But what?

Answer 1

It could be your RAM. This happened to me with my lap top then I bought another gig of RAM and it runs alot faster. Hope this helps?

Answer 2

If you're downloading at the same time as you're browsing, then there's your problem.

Answer 3

I'll bet that your room-mate has configured a different DNS than you, and that the one you are using is horribly overloaded, or at a net address that has problems.

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Failing that - try tracert from a command window and see if you can spot the problem