Internet connection delay

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Bob Weber

When I start my computer I can not access the internet for 6-7 minutes then
it starts working. Using Windows XP Home. I've restored to a date prior to
when this first started but no help. I just reinstalled Windows XP and
still have this delay. Anyone ever see this?

Bob
 
A full, clean install & it still does it. You DID contact Comcast before you
took that drastic step & ask if the problem was possibly at their end or in
your configuration?
 
Here is a little more detail. I turn on the computer and click on Internet
Explorer and can't get my home page. Open Outlook Express and email won't
update. Double click on Atom Time to access their clock and it can't
connect. Open my Sygate Firewall Pro monitor to see if there is any traffic
and see only incoming broadcast traffic, nothing outgoing. At about 7
minutes everything works and the firewall monitor shows all kinds of input
and output traffic.

I've posed this problem to my ISP (Comcast.net), to Microsoft Support and to
Sygate Support and no one can fix so far.

Bob
 
Bob Weber said:
Here is a little more detail. I turn on the computer and click on Internet
Explorer and can't get my home page. Open Outlook Express and email won't
update. Double click on Atom Time to access their clock and it can't
connect. Open my Sygate Firewall Pro monitor to see if there is any traffic
and see only incoming broadcast traffic, nothing outgoing. At about 7
minutes everything works and the firewall monitor shows all kinds of input
and output traffic.
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SNIP

Do you connect via a router or modem? Is your IP dynamically assigned by the
ISP or is it fixed?
Chris
 
How do you find your IP address in XP Home? In Windows ME I used
winipcfg.exe. In Windows XP I see ..\System32\ipconfig.exe but when I
double
click it I see a black window flash but nothing else.

Bob
 
Whoops. I just discovered that in Control Panel - Network Connections, the
properties feature gives tells me that my IP address is assigned by DHCP so
I assume it is dynamically assigned.

Bob
 
Hi Bob,

You can use it within the command program.
Go to Start > Run > cmd
Then type ipconfig.exe
It should work.

Hope this helps.
 
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