I sent a 433AH with a Dbii 2.4 card to a client 400 miles away. He plugged it in and everything inside the network works perfect. The problem is a 10 second delay when opening a browser, sending a call, even trace route from the server. Once it connects it works fine. I have checked everything I can think of and I'm at a loss as to what is wrong. I had the client put in the old router and there is no delay. Any suggestions or insight would be greatly appreciated.

The use the local cable company that bridges a public static. Eth1 is the WAN port. Eth2, Eth3 and Wlan are bridged and have DHCP enabled. Here is the config
[russ@FICO] > ip firewall nat print
Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, D - dynamic
0 chain=srcnat action=masquerade src-address=192.168.1.0/24
out-interface=ether1

1 ;;; RDP
chain=dstnat action=dst-nat to-addresses=192.168.1.100 to-ports=3389
protocol=tcp dst-address=69.145.XXX.XXX dst-port=3389

2 ;;; vpn
chain=dstnat action=dst-nat to-addresses=192.168.1.100 to-ports=1723
protocol=tcp dst-address=69.145.XXX.XXX dst-port=1723

3 ;;; HTTPS
chain=dstnat action=dst-nat to-addresses=192.168.1.100 to-ports=443
protocol=tcp dst-address=69.145.XXX.XXX dst-port=443

4 ;;; HTTP
chain=dstnat action=dst-nat to-addresses=192.168.1.100 to-ports=80
protocol=tcp dst-address=69.145.XXX.XXX dst-port=80

5 ;;; FTP
chain=dstnat action=dst-nat to-addresses=192.168.1.100 to-ports=21
protocol=tcp dst-address=69.145.XXX.XXX dst-port=21

[russ@FICO] > ip route print
Flags: X - disabled, A - active, D - dynamic,
C - connect, S - static, r - rip, b - bgp, o - ospf, m - mme,
B - blackhole, U - unreachable, P - prohibit
# DST-ADDRESS PREF-SRC GATEWAY DISTANCE
0 A S 0.0.0.0/0 69.145.XXX.XXX 1
1 ADC 69.145.XXX.XXX/30 69.145.XXX.XXX ether1 0
2 ADC 192.168.1.0/24 192.168.1.1 lan bridge 0

Are you maybe using an invalid primary DNS server?
It would be one explanation for why everything takes some time to work (until first dns resolve try fails),
but then spontaneously works (secondary dns resolves normally).

I am using the DNS from the cable provider. I will change it and see if it makes a difference.