StreamReader to slow?!?

[janis]

Hi,
I get some web page in this way:

Dim txt as string
Dim startD As Date, endD As Date
Dim rS As Stream 
    rS = HttpWebResponse.GetResponseStream()
    startD = DateTime.Now
    Dim sR As New StreamReader(rS)
    txt = strReader.ReadToEnd()
    endD = Now

This web page has about 350kb and difference from startD and endD is 8sec. I think that is to much time for loading 350kb file. Can I do it faster?

thanks j