Thanks to you all.
It works fine from my side too Wanda. That is when Data Pro is up and running. Yes, you are right Samantha. It might be elsewhere, however, Data Pro is my service provider which is at hop 17. I have been watching their performance and know it is pathetic due to irregular congestion and poor infrastructure management. That is why I want to change. Your trace is concerning from your side too because hop 2 shows constant congestion and hop 3 shows erratic congestion. The average critical path (longest hops) for all the hops is 198ms which is too high. The total is 3568ms but the trace didn't reach the final IP so the total would have been even longer.
Today, I also did a trace to my site from here though. It averaged at only 83ms compared to yours at 198ms but I have seen far better days.
As far as the number of items loaded, I don't see them in the status bar at all (either IE7, FF2 or NS8). It might be too quick as my home page usually opens in 2-3 seconds from here, with or without cache cleared. Could you try the trace again as today there seems less congestion?
Correction! I've just done a trace route to Lambert's and it timed out at hop 25. The hops from atlas.cogentco.com on wards were all above 300ms. I am not sure how to interpret this precisely, but it looks very slow on your side of the globe and I expected it to be slower down here.
Isn't there a risk of showing internal IP addresses? I heard it was unsafe to show them because of spamming etc. Maybe Ringo them out.