It pops up almost immediately for me. It could very well have nothing to do
with the speed of your line. Broadband technologies, such as DSL, are
subject to the amount of total bandwidth available for all subscribers off a
given node. It could be that there isn't much bandwidth available for your
area at the time you are looking, or lots of people are also browsing at the
same time, dividing the total bandwidth down more than would like. The DSL
speeds a provider gives are usually maximum or average speeds not minimum
speeds so your results can vary wildly from others who live only a few miles
away.
If other sites are snappy, it could just be the steps that you have to go
through to reach that particular site from your particular location. For me,
all the hops along the route my request to the site averaged a speed of
about 20 milliseconds each, which is pretty darned good. It could just be
that the path your have to take to get to the site has a slow pipe between
one or more of the hops and that is what is actually slowing you down and
not the site or the host.
Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage