cable broadband slow to display pages

[Guest]

There is a delay of several seconds to a minute before a website's page will display after typing in the URL. When I test the connection speed at any of the several test sites available, they all say I am connecting at 1000 Mbps or better. However, there's always a pause. When the page does come up it comes up very fast. This machine is running XP professional, with 512 Mb RAM, plenty of available disk space, the cache and temp files have been deleted, with no effect. Machine is on a network, but isolating it and running directly off the cable modem makes no difference. I've only had this problem on this one machine, and have contacted the ISP numerous time with no success. I've tested packet sizes, change packet size and MTU? settings with no success. Anyone else have this problem?

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

First eliminate any scumware.
See
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

Note that AdAware and SpyBot S & D will each catch some things the other
won't. Also, each needs to be updated before every use, even when just
downloaded. There's also a lot more to do than just those two programs.
CWShredder is also available here:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/cwshredder.zip
**Post your HijackThis log to
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/ or the Spyware forum at
http://forum.aumha.org/ for expert analysis, not here.**
Alternative download pages for Ad-Aware, Spybot, HijackThis and CWShredder
may be found on this page:
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm.
If trying everything at that site does not fix the problem please post back
in the same thread.

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