Network response time is very slow

Issue

• Initial network application connections take a long time to get started. Note the total time at the end of the ping output:

$ ping remotehost
PING remotehost (192.168.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.60 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.141 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.106 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.092 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.114 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=0.101 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=0.070 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=0.103 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=64 time=0.089 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=10 ttl=64 time=0.112 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=11 ttl=64 time=0.089 ms
^C
--- remotehost ping statistics ---
11 packets transmitted, 11 received, 0% packet loss, time 22034ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.070/0.238/1.606/0.433 ms