Tiles loading sequence, how to modify

Is there a way to modify how Tiles load? I'm building more or less a portal and every time you click on a page, each "portlet" loads individually, first stretching, then conforming to the column's percentage.

So the effect is you see the page load, but stretch and shrink as it loads.

I'd like it to load, then display all at once.

Any ideas?

I've never experienced such a loading problem with tiles.

By the nature of http I would think this to not be an issue with tiles. The tiles should all be sent as a single request unless you are using frames.

Are you calling tiles portlets or are you using the Portlet API?

It might just be the browser trying to display information as it renders it. The only way I can think to prevent that is to specify the widths and heights.

I shouldn't have used "portlets" and "tiles" in the same sentence. When running it through our VPN, it displays as I describe (or attempted to), but when running connection directly with the LAN, renders much faster and doesn't seem to be as bad...