How slow is too slow (ASP.Net)

We all know that ASP.net has some neat built ins that make some web apps as easy as clicking and dragging the mouse button. But is it really worth it when your app is 11 MB and it takes broadband users seconds to load a full page?

I say no. I've been doing a lot of ASP.Net and so far I dislike almost everything about it. Yes it has great features and quick and easy database manipulation from mere drag, drop, and click your way through wizards. But at the end I get the same final result... its way too slow. Even in creating these drag and drop environments I have to right click, click this, change that, click this, change that, click this, click that, select this checkbox, set to visible... Whatever happened to tags? Is there something that can be done to speed ASP.net up, or is it better to just use classic ASP on the windows servers that won't support PHP.

For class we had to build an intra net portal and use ASP.net as the designing platform. After weeks of working on this project we have it and its ready to go. The program itself is quite nice but it takes seconds per page to load. I redesigned the program using Classic ASP and not only does it load in half the time, to me it seems easier to maintain as well.

Any opinions appreciated.