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Old 07 June 2008, 12:16 PM
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Default Why does my computer..........

...............take AGES to load the internet first time in the day after I switch it on?

It doesn't matter if it's been on a minute, or an hour, whether I try to load IE7 or Mozilla Firefox, first time I ask it to connect, it takes up to 5 minutes to load.

After that it's virtually instant

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Old 07 June 2008, 02:16 PM
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My FF takes ages as it loads plugins and extensions and checks for updates. Maybe IE is the same.
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What config do you have?

The only thing that springs to mind is that there is an issue with you finding a DNS Server the first time you try to browse.

Try pinging a web-site BEFORE you connect and see what happens

ping www.microsoft.com or something similar
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Originally Posted by Kieran_Burns
What config do you have?

The only thing that springs to mind is that there is an issue with you finding a DNS Server the first time you try to browse.

Try pinging a web-site BEFORE you connect and see what happens

ping www.microsoft.com or something similar
OK, you got me, how do I "ping" a website?

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Old 07 June 2008, 05:53 PM
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Originally Posted by alcazar
OK, you got me, how do I "ping" a website?

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Start > Run > cmd > ping "website"

where website is the website you want to ping, without the quotes


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Old 07 June 2008, 06:01 PM
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in IE, take off automatically detect settings, in the tools / options / connections / lan settings page if it is ticked, and see if that makes any difference....



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Originally Posted by WRX_Dazza
in IE, take off automatically detect settings, in the tools / options / connections / lan settings page if it is ticked, and see if that makes any difference....



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Ha! Forgot about that one

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Old 07 June 2008, 08:52 PM
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Maybe DNS has been set to static and its a log on process??
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Originally Posted by pimmo2000
Maybe DNS has been set to static and its a log on process??


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Old 07 June 2008, 10:25 PM
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Originally Posted by WRX_Dazza
in IE, take off automatically detect settings, in the tools / options / connections / lan settings page if it is ticked, and see if that makes any difference....



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That seems to have made it faster, but what's it actually DONE?

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Originally Posted by alcazar
That seems to have made it faster, but what's it actually DONE?

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IE was searching for proxies, etc basically for how it should be accessing the internet .. once off it just does what its meant to by default.
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Proxy literally means on behalf of.

In a corporate environment you don't want your staff DIRECTLY accessing the internet so you use a Proxy (server). This does the web browsing on behalf of the user and passes the web-sites back to them.

If you set up your network correctly, Internet browsers can automatically detect where this proxy (server) is... the tick box you cleared is all that needs to be done on the p.c. for it to go looking for it.

As you are not in a corporate environment you do not need this tick box and it should remain cleared.

I hope this doesn't come across as patronising! It's either that or I start burbling on about WPAD entries in DNS or DHCP and which is better (DHCP)
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Originally Posted by Kieran_Burns
Proxy literally means on behalf of.

In a corporate environment you don't want your staff DIRECTLY accessing the internet so you use a Proxy (server). This does the web browsing on behalf of the user and passes the web-sites back to them.

If you set up your network correctly, Internet browsers can automatically detect where this proxy (server) is... the tick box you cleared is all that needs to be done on the p.c. for it to go looking for it.

As you are not in a corporate environment you do not need this tick box and it should remain cleared.

I hope this doesn't come across as patronising! It's either that or I start burbling on about WPAD entries in DNS or DHCP and which is better (DHCP)
I'm a bit of a tech head and I found that to be perfectly reasonable an explanation.

In fact I might just steal it .
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what do i win??? lol.

yeah, had years of experience of this.... i tend to leave (L)users with it ticked, hoping that if it takes too long, they will stop surfing and get on with some work!! lol - trouble is, most of them know more than me about t'internet now. - so i have to enforce my own rules via the firewall (mwaaa haaa haar)

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Originally Posted by pimmo2000
I'm a bit of a tech head and I found that to be perfectly reasonable an explanation.

In fact I might just steal it .
'twas a pleasure - and happy to help




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