Web traffic crawls with domain user, local user ok

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I'm having network problems with a XP SP2 laptop outside the company
network. When i use my domain user account outside the company net with no
connection to the domain, Internet traffic (web, email) gets extremely slow.
Even opening my ISP's web page can take several minutes.

I noticed that when i log on as a local user this issue doesn't appear.

Any ideas on what could be causing this problem and how to fix it for the
domain user?
 
aspa said:
I'm having network problems with a XP SP2 laptop outside the company
network. When i use my domain user account outside the company net with no
connection to the domain, Internet traffic (web, email) gets extremely slow.
Even opening my ISP's web page can take several minutes.

I noticed that when i log on as a local user this issue doesn't appear.

Any ideas on what could be causing this problem and how to fix it for the
domain user?
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The problem is that when your laptop is on the domain it is using the
server for DNS. Outside the domain it can't reach the server of course.
Either use the Alternate Configuration for outside use or get one of the
multinetwork managers:

Automatic Configuration for Multiple Networks -
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/learnmore/tips/autoconfig.mspx

Managing One Windows XP-based Laptop for the Office and Home by MVP
Charlie Russel - http://tinyurl.com/cpy9q

http://www.netswitcher.com - NetSwitcher
http://www.globesoft.com/mnm_home.html - MultiNetwork Manager
http://www.mobilenetswitch.com - Mobile Net Switch


Malke
 
Malke said:
The problem is that when your laptop is on the domain it is using the
server for DNS. Outside the domain it can't reach the server of course.
Either use the Alternate Configuration for outside use or get one of the
multinetwork managers:
Click to expand...

Thanks for your reply.

I do have an Alternate Configuration enabled in Windows.
 
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