Can you describe the lag?  I

Can you describe the lag?  I don’t have any.

Below are some general settings to set to help prevent unnecessary delays.

1- Disable “Automatically detect settings” in IE proxy configuration

Many applications, including Netflix, will check IE proxy configuration and leaving the default auto detect setting enable can cause a delay.

2- If you internet provider performs DNS Hijacking by violating the RFC standard for DNS (NXDOMAIN) responses then opt-out or change to a 3rd party DNS server such as Google Public DNS.

Comcast, Time Warner, Cox, Rogers, etc, all use DNS hijacking and enable the “service” by default.  Same thing with OpenDNS, they do the same crap.  You can disable it in OpenDNS as well but then you lose other features.  Opt-out!  I actually do both, 1- opt-out in a small effort to show via numbers that the service is crap, and 2- use Google Public DNS.

Depending on the technology used by a CDN (GeoDNS, Anycast, Black Magic, Voodoo) uses Google Public DNS or any other shared public provider may be a bad idea as well.  Typically a CDN’s authoritative DNS hosting will feed recursive (non-autoritative) DNS services (i.e. Google Public DNS, OpenDNS, etc) with different IP address information according to the GeoIP location of the recursive DNS server.   So as a user you’ll get an IP address of the Netflix server closest to the DNS server instead of your geographic location.  This could be none issue but other times could lead to a high latency.