Slow download of jQuery from Google CDN

[pmeenan]

Looking at the bandwidth line, it looks like the requests are just competing for resources with other downloads that are going on at the same time. It is also possible that IE's networking stack is running into some contention trying to read the different requests since the data is measured from the browser's perspective but I'd be more inclined to believe it is just bandwidth starved. Try a higher bandwidth connection (or a dedicated test page) and see if you see the same behavior.