Lets see who the computer whiz is on here, cuz i have a question?

Question

Alright, heres the dl. We have dial-up as our internet connection and yes it sucks, but i can live with it. First, I always open up the mozilla firefox server b4 connecting to the internet. But the problem is that after connecting to the internet and trying to go directly to some website it will just "time out". However, if we open the homepage up first after connecting then it never times out and we can go to other websites as long as the homepage was visited first. Does anyone have any clue as to why it times out when we don't open the homepage first?? I mean the internet is still connected too when it says it is timed out. We used Internet Explorer before I installed Mozilla, and the I.E. would, more often than not, say "Not Responding" after connecting and clicking on anything. However after waiting 5-10 minutes it would start responding and working again. Any thoughts, ideas, resolutions, answers would be appreciated thx

i always do the disk defrag and disk cleanup about once a week and always delete my cookies and delete any temporary online and off line stuff.

Answer 1

It sounds like your computer is caching DNS. To explain...DNS is basically an internet traffic cop, when you dial up, your isp issues you an ip address, it is related to the isp's router and dns servers (they need to know who you are so your mac address (physical part number of yourmodem) is assigned that ip address (dynamic temporary internet address) to use while you surf, check email etc..., once you log out, that ip address is released back to your isp's router pool to give someone else to use. you may or may not ever get the same ip address more than once, you also may or may not actually connect to the same DNS server for name fowarding...hence the issue.....
If your computer is thinking when you dial up that you are still using the old DNS server to send its address querys to, it may get a black hole.....and time out, on the same hand , if your computer is caching, your home page will load much faster becaus it has stored most of that content in memory, and its actually loading from that local memory rather than from the web site itself.

Suggestions: clear your temporary internet files folder, delete cookies and clear the history and see how it responds. These settings can be found by opening IE and choosing the tools>internet options>general path from the menu bar. Hope it helps.

Answer 2

Interesting, try changing the homepage and see if it (the homepage) loads there. What ISP do you use, do they require you to use a specific page to log into before you can access other pages?

Honestly sounds like a driver issue though, perhaps downloading the latest drivers for your networking card would fix the problem.

Answer 3

160gigs of hard drive space, not ram lol. Net books arent meant to heavily multitask, its meant to be a very light computer. It also sounds like your actual ram is ****** up or your battery is bent or broken. Have you recently dropped it or dropped anything on it?