Best Practices for Speeing Up Your Web Site from Yahoo includes the following recommendation:
When users request a page, it can take anywhere from 200 to 500
You should be able to put the following in your page between the end of the head and the beginning of the body statement:
<% Response.Flush(); %>
However, be careful here in the event that you are using a script manager or any other kind of control that will register itself for output in the head section of the html.