it takes 2 seconds to connect to the net but 4 mins to start browsing

[euqiddis]

Hi all,

im in need of some help, when i open up IE i get teh connect to internet box (as usual) when i enter the user/pass it connect straight away to the net, however i cnt browse till about 4 minutes after for some reason the progress bar just slowly moves,when i enter a url nothing happens either. The pc seems to be stuck as i cant open any other programs, however after 4 minutes i can browse and open other apps as usual.

has anyone got any ideas why this could be happening?

I have done the following:

1. ran spybot search and destroy and lavasoft Ad-aware, (it only found cookies)i restarted the pc and had the same problem.

2. made all the programs that are allowed accessed via zone alarm program control to ask me first, IIS, IE and a few other asked for access to the net when i connected, but still had to wait the four minutes.

3. Tried firefox and still the same problem, had to wait four minutes to get any page loaded.

4.scanned pc for viruses with nod32 , still same problem.

cheers

[weEvil]

1. Too many startup programs running at the same time.

2. Anti-virus scanning in realtime (scans everything you do and everything incoming)

3. Bad connection. Tweak your MTU.

4. Bad connection. Check you connection limit.

5. Bad connection. Check your wireless or any browser 'accelerator'.

[Ponch]

Can you see if the internet traffic is at full during those 4 minutes (in the ZoneAlarm icon) ?

Maybe an antivirus update ? When did it start ? What's your type of connection ?

[euqiddis]

ponch, there is no traffic at all, in teh network connections box, only a few kilbytes are recieved.

I check for antivirus updates every day.

It started about six months ago.

Im on a 1mb adsl connection (with a wired modem).

[gosh]

If you have a LAN or Cable you can use safe mode with networking. You want to disable 3rd party browser extensions. Make sure you re-register the IE dll's. Reinstall IE.

-gosh

[Ponch]

I check for antivirus updates every day.

I meant the update could have eaten all the bandwidth for few seconds (but hardly 4minutes) at every (???again) new connection, but it looks like it's not the case.

[weEvil]

Try Ubuntu Live-CD. Get it running (no install needed) then try to connect to the internet.

If it still hangs, it could be your hardware or connection (external hardware or remote server is doing something).

If it doesn't... then its windows.

[euqiddis]

Right, it seems its a zone alarm problem, i connected to teh net, waited 2 minutes then closed ZA and it browsed to the page straight away. Now i cant get ZA up and running again lol.

[euqiddis]

right, im sure its a zone alarm problem as per post above, ive done a clean install of zone alarm, but the browsing still hangs.

[weEvil]

Maybe Zone Alarm is throwing a fit. Try an update first.

Or use something else. Have you tried WinPooch? Its Open Source.

[euqiddis]

an update, ive updated to the latest version and all is good now, working perfect. thanks for all the help.