IE7 slow to load some pages

(cross-post added to Vista Networking)
"William Hudson" <WilliamHudson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1D30E03B-891D-4859-83CB-50CAE409E6CD@microsoft.com...

>I have been using IE7 for some months now under Vista, but I have come across
> several sites that simply refuse to load in a timely manner. For example,
> this URL:
> https://bureau.bottomline.co.uk/wbs/index.aspx usually times out. However,
> it loads under Opera (6.2) almost instantly.

Is it any more likely to load *after* you have loaded it under Opera?
If so, it could be that your DNS is slow resolving that lookup
and Opera is more tolerant of such a delay.

A way to work around such a possibility without resorting to first using
another browser is to use ping -n 1 (in a cmd window).
In this case there is no alias involved but when there is you must also
ping -n 1 the canonical name in order to cache both the alias and the
canonical name's IP address.

Checking with ipconfig /displaydns shows that you could have about
3 minutes advantage from such a procedure:

<displaydns>
bureau.bottomline.co.uk
----------------------------------------
Record Name . . . . . : bureau.bottomline.co.uk
Record Type . . . . . : 1
Time To Live . . . . : 202
Data Length . . . . . : 4
Section . . . . . . . : Answer
A (Host) Record . . . : 195.153.88.130
</displaydns>


FWIW I would try tracing the requests on the client at least,
just to change your symptom description from "slow to load"
to something more specific packetwise. I would use netcap
(from the XP Support Tools) for the capture and Ethereal (aka WireShark)
for the formatting. (Ethereal can also be used, less conveniently IMO,
to do the capture too.) I don't use your OS so I don't know if either
of these tools still work on it. Cross-posting to get some OS-specific
comments.

>
> I have searched through and applied most of the suggested fixes from this
> news group:
> - My disk is defragged weekly
> - The cache is set to 50 MB
> - Protected mode is off
> - Phishing filter is off
> - The AV I am using is NOD32 but turning this off has no effect
> - Connection is via LAN (8 MB broadband) with no auto-dial or proxy settings
>
> We are using ISA Server 2004 but in a 'routing' mode (that is, it's a proxy
> pretending to route so the clients need no extra software or settings).

Oh. Does the ISA Server do the DNS for you too?
Perhaps the better place to gather diagnostics then
would be on the server, assuming you have access to it?


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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>
> The machine being used is an Intel Core 2 2.4 GHz with 2 GB RAM and 2 x 140
> GB fast hard disks.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> William