Hi,

- what kind of horsepower are your DB and IIS servers ?

- are you using Express 2005 or SQL 2005

- my dev notebook is a thinkpad a22m, with 512mb ram, 60GBHD, PIII 1GHZ, and my site does fail to load the first time and/or takes a bit to load, 95% of the time (W2K pro, with IIS, SQL Express 2005 ), when i retry, the pages load.

as compared to my Windows 2003 server running dual 2.6GHZ 1.5GB Ram, SQL 2005, the sites never fail to load when i access it from my notebook.

you may want to possibly check your network, and check if there are any errors occuring on your NIC's, this would usually cause latency issues.

also if you have access your sql Server box, just as a test, try to give it more/higher priorties in the Management Studio settings.

and if you have access to your IIS Server/Core server, try setting your throughput to "balanced" (under your network properties - client for networks... i think)

HTH,

Johnny