Getting a Resolving Host delay of 5-7 seconds every time I visit a new web page

[TheBlargg]

For the last few months, every time I go to load a new web page, I get Resolving Host in the bottom left corner of my browser and nothing happens for 5-7 seconds. I'm running Windows 10 on two different laptops and the same thing happens on both. I have Shaw Internet 600. Once the page begins to load, it loads quickly and my SpeedTest checks out. I just don't know where this delay is coming from.

[shaw-tony]

@TheBlargg it may be browser-related. Are you noticing the same issue when using Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc? I'd recommend trying on different browsers and disabling any browser extensions (adblock, etc) to see if the issue comes up. Let me know how it goes!

[5142604]

I had the same problem. I was noticing that this was most prevalent when using my mobile devices, eg: ipad/iphone. 

My devices are both cellular/wifi.

Whenever submitting a new request for a site, the handshake between my device & the server took forever on shaw wifi. Oddly, my laptop, plugged into ethernet had no issues with the same site. 

I presented my question to a good friend who works for a firm that installs large scale wifi.

Her first question to me was: are you using Shaw’s wifi router...

$45 later, with a cheap router and I no longer have this problem.

[mdk]

@5142604 -- $45 later, with a cheap router and I no longer have this problem

Have you "bridged" the BlueCurve, so that your router gets a "public" IP-address from Shaw's DHCP-server, or is your router getting a "private" IP-address from the BlueCurve's DHCP-server? The two DHCP-servers may give you different IP-addresses for the DNS-servers.

Note that if you use the Google home-page to do a search for "Chicago", the hyperlink that you "click" on is:

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=

&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi6s7-4-qLvAhXOv54KHXr7AL8QFjAAegQICBAD

&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FChicago

&usg=AOvVaw3

When you "click", you computer connects to www.google.ca -- in order to give information to Google about your "click" -- before redirecting your web-browser to the "en.wikipedia.org" Wki-page for Chicago. That "redirection" will cause some additional delay, as compared to you directly accessing:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago