Slower response time since google?

[donbryce]

Beginning around last fall, I think, I began to notice a slow-down in response time on this forum as well as 2 others that I frequent. The message that started to appear is like 'Waiting for pagead2 google syndication.com'. Have these forums switched to google servers or something and are we suffering a degradation as a result?
The slow response isn't constant, sometimes varies due to net traffic or other parameters, I think, but being interrupted while waiting for a page refresh or to be taken to a selected thread seems much more often than I remember. It frequently takes 30 - 45 seconds to complete. My internet high speed service provider and computer are the same as before.