[ruffles]

I have a dial up connection (it's a adsl, but you have to use dial up to connect) and lately I have a problem with it. When I connect to the server everything is ok, but my software can't see the network. Example: I start Firefox, a dial up pops up, dial the number, connect and establishes the connection, but firefox can't reach the start page and no other application can use internet. This lasts about a minute and then suddenly everything work fine. This happens only once every session (if I disconnect, and dial again everything is ok, but after restart it happens again). I've noticed one weird thing. There are a few svchost.exe processes running and during dialing one of then is using ~98% CPU. If I close it (thru Task Manager) suddenly everything works and I can browse the web. I have a firewall, but if I swich it off (almost a heart attack) nothing changes. Does anybody know what to do with this? Maybe tweaking my connection settings would help, but I don't know what to change.

 

[mike5532g]

Have you recently added the spybot host file recently? A large host file can cause this slowdown in windows xp and 2000.

To resolve this issue open the "Services Editor"

* Start | Run (type) "services.msc" (no quotes)
* Scroll down to "DNS Client", Right-click and select: Properties
* Click the drop-down arrow for "Startup type"
* Select: Manual, click Apply\Ok and restart.

 

[ruffles]

Well, it wasn't spybot's, but yes and it was large. I followed your suggestion and it works great now. Thanks.

 

[mike5532g]

Glad to help.

As you have seen the host file doesn't necessarily have to be spybots. Host files can be downloaded or entries simply copied and pasted into your current host file.