1 minute delay after dial-up established before internet 'works'

[Mike]

I've been fighting with this for a while and googled it to hell and back and
can't find a solution.

On establishing a dial up connection to the net through 2 isp's I get the
same 1 minute and 10second delay after the "registering your computer on the
network" message before tcpip gets going.

In this 1 minute I can 'route print' for the local route table and it looks
good with a gateway and ips. (See below)
ipconfig also looks good. (See below)

Also in this minute I can nslookup and get answers. I think this doesn't use
tcp-ip uses udp ? right ?

Also in this time if I look at the task mgr svchost NETWORK SERVICE is
hogging 99% of the CPU.

After my 1 minute delay everything clicks in and works. OE collects and
sends IE browses. and the svchost seems content with 0% CPU.

I've enabled and disabled the MS firewall (no others installed)
Scanned for viruses.
Removed my virus software.
Scanned using latest Spybot.
Created new dial up 'account'
Torn some hair out.

Someone give me a steer on this please !

Cheers

Mike

Route print
===========================================================================
Interface List
0x1 ........................... MS TCP Loopback interface
0x40003 ...00 53 45 00 00 00 ...... WAN (PPP/SLIP) Interface
===========================================================================
===========================================================================
Active Routes:
Network Destination Netmask Gateway Interface Metric
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 80.47.213.10 80.47.213.10 1
80.47.213.10 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 50
80.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 80.47.213.10 80.47.213.10 50
127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1
212.74.112.3 255.255.255.255 80.47.213.10 80.47.213.10 1
224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 80.47.213.10 80.47.213.10 1
Default Gateway: 80.47.213.10
===========================================================================
Persistent Routes:
None

ipconfig

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : boxy
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

PPP adapter Uk2 Net:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : WAN (PPP/SLIP) Interface
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-53-45-00-00-00
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 80.47.213.10
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 80.47.213.10
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 80.225.253.50
80.225.253.58
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled

 

[Cez]

Hi Mike-- I just began experiencing the same problem last evening
following the installation of the latest "critical" Windows Updates
for IE from the Microsoft update site and an upgrade of my Sygate
firewall. The symptoms you describe are nearly *exact* (down to the
1'10" proxy detect delay) to my own, but I have yet to find a solution
either through a full day of Google research or
uninstalling/reinstalling various compenents (firewall, virusscanner,
etc.). My event viewer log has tons of DHCP errors, so I'm sure that
the problem resides there somehow. Though I can't offer you a
solution, please do share if you should be fortunate enough to come
across one -- you're not alone! I will be sure to do the same.

Ciao -- and thanks!

Cez.

 

[MikeB]

Cez,
I finally ran out of patience, flattened XP and resinstalled to SP1, problem
goes away.
Just out of interest, I had installed IIS and Vb .net which I suppose might
be less common configs on XP. Do you have anything similar?
Also I wasn't getting any DHCP errors.
Mike