>When I just clicked on Reply (to reply to your message) I was watching my wall clock and it took about 3 minutes for the message "Waiting for Univesalthread.com...." to go away and for the screen when I can start typing to appear. It could be that it is on my end (possibly FireFox or something else). I will try connecting from another computer that has IE 8.

This is definitely something external causing this. As I mentioned, with the image I showed you, this indicates that all is super fast on everything you do here. As for the transfer, it seems to be related to bad ISP setting, a bad route, DNS, etc.