help dialup first page slow to appear

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

for future reference I think I've found it

turned out to be related to my Hosts file, see

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

the section related to large Hosts files slowing the machine

"al_change_little_to_big" <alalal@littlefoot.com> wrote in message
news:2Yadndt7rNnyBzbcRVnyjw@brightview.com...
> I've searched the archives and only found one possible solution for
> this(turn off auto dialling) but that didn't work.
>
> xp home, sp2, ie6
>
> dials up and connects fine but first page (or newsgroup, or mail with or
> without different software) takes about a minute to appear, all pages etc
> after that are fine, really annoying.
>
> Any help greatly appreciated (except format c:, re-install :-))
>
> thanks
>