Why does my browser hang?

Something really annoying is ocurring. I cannot figure out what makes this happen but, every so often certain web pages hang for at least 35 seconds and even up to a minute before the response is recieved and then the webpage is rendered.
I have only noticed this issue twice ever.
First Instance (months ago):
While working at my house, using ftp and working on a site on a godaddy server. However the only time my browser would hang is on THIS site/server. It happens in all browsers. If I were to visit a different website, say like faceook, everything loads perfectly normal (quick like it should). The actual hanging only happens once in a while, lasted for spurts of 20 minutes or so then would load quickly again.
Second Instance (since i started my job - present):
In the office at my new job. Only happens once in a while, but way too often and is very annoying when trying to preview a change to a website. Same characteristics as the first instance. There is an unprotected network nextdoor, and when i switch to that my problem is solved. This problem happens every day at seemingly random times. There are also people running on a PC and they try to view the same website, but it loads perfectly fine.
Things I have tried.
Disabling IPv6.
Changing DNS Servers to google'
Empty every cache thinkable.
Still no luck.
Anybody have a fix for this? Anybody have this same issue?

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