ok lets take this futher with Diagnostic Data:

Ping to www.renderosity.com :

C:Documents and SettingsKhai>ping www.renderosity.com

Pinging www.renderosity.com [66.18.106.204] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 66.18.106.204: bytes=32 time=98ms TTL=44
Reply from 66.18.106.204: bytes=32 time=164ms TTL=44
Reply from 66.18.106.204: bytes=32 time=165ms TTL=44
Reply from 66.18.106.204: bytes=32 time=98ms TTL=44

Ping statistics for 66.18.106.204:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 98ms, Maximum = 165ms, Average = 131ms

a good fast ping.

next a tracert
C:Documents and SettingsKhai>tracert www.renderosity.com

Tracing route to www.renderosity.com [66.18.106.204]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  192.168.2.1
  2    59 ms    91 ms    87 ms  10.72.64.1
  3    83 ms   185 ms   225 ms  d226-3-81.home.cgocable.net [24.226.3.81]
  4   172 ms    29 ms    54 ms  g2-1-2.core01.yyz02.atlas.cogentco.com [38.112.2
40.137]
  5     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  6     *       27 ms    39 ms  v3492-mpd01.yyz01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.5.8
1]
  7    22 ms    14 ms    24 ms  g3-0-0-3491-core01.yyz01.atlas.cogentco.com [154
.54.5.77]
  8    34 ms    30 ms    31 ms  p13-0.core02.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com [66.28.4.2
13]
  9     *       50 ms    33 ms  v5.mpd01.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.3.254]

 10    49 ms    65 ms   108 ms  v3498.mpd01.ord03.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.5.2
]
 11   143 ms   186 ms   202 ms  g3-0-0-3490.core01.ord03.atlas.cogentco.com [154
.54.3.233]
 12   154 ms   250 ms   162 ms  206.111.2.29
 13   152 ms    75 ms    31 ms  p5-0-0.RAR1.Chicago-IL.us.xo.net [65.106.6.133]

 14   146 ms   167 ms   187 ms  p6-0-0.RAR2.Washington-DC.us.xo.net [65.106.0.46
]
 15   127 ms   181 ms   115 ms  p6-0-0.RAR2.Atlanta-GA.us.xo.net [65.106.0.6]
 16   296 ms   133 ms    83 ms  p4-0-0.MAR2.Nashville-TN.us.xo.net [65.106.4.50]

 17   132 ms   152 ms   198 ms  p15-1.CHR1.Nashville-TN.us.xo.net [207.88.85.126
]
 18   160 ms    69 ms    62 ms  66.238.242.46.ptr.us.xo.net [66.238.242.46]
 19   168 ms   140 ms   153 ms  cs01.bna2.rentech.net [66.18.99.72]
 20   245 ms   136 ms    69 ms  unk.bondware.com [66.18.106.204]

Trace complete.

while there's a timeout, still a reasonable trace time.

but..... page load time .... 18.995 seconds.... (the above trace (with timeout) took 6 seconds)

anyone wanna explain the disparity of 13 seconds?