IE6 and Firefox slow to load internet pages.

I have Comcast cable high speed Internet access, Win98SE, Firefox 1.5,
and IE6. The Comcast home page takes 60 seconds to load. Other pages
are correspondingly slow to load in both IE and Firefox. A laptop
computer connected to the same cable by wireless does not have this
problem.

CPU=AMD K6 3D 400 MH
Memory=384 MB
Display adapter = Diamond Speedstar A50 for Windows 95.

What should I look for as my limiting factor for speed.

Suggestions will be appreciated.
Stan Hilliard

On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 22:00:13 -0600, Stan Hilliard
wrote:

I have Comcast cable high speed Internet access, Win98SE, Firefox 1.5,
and IE6. The Comcast home page takes 60 seconds to load. Other pages
are correspondingly slow to load in both IE and Firefox. A laptop
computer connected to the same cable by wireless does not have this
problem.

CPU=AMD K6 3D 400 MH
Memory=384 MB
Display adapter = Diamond Speedstar A50 for Windows 95.

What should I look for as my limiting factor for speed.

Suggestions will be appreciated.
Stan Hilliard

Also, using the example of Comcast home page,
http://www.comcast.net/home.html

it take about 1.5 seconds to show the page after it has been covered
by another window. During that time only the browser frame is shown
and the window is black. The time to paint the page gets faster when
I cover it with a smaller window. Then when I bring it to the front
the black part is smaller and it paints faster.

Other web pages with less graphics on them are faster to show.

I would like to determine the bottleneck and fix it.

Stan Hilliard

Go here
http://www.fileresearchcenter.com/ and scan your pc to see
what`s running on it

I`m not a complete idiot, there`s still a few bits missing
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On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 22:00:13 -0600, Stan Hilliard
wrote:

I have Comcast cable high speed Internet access, Win98SE, Firefox 1.5,
and IE6. The Comcast home page takes 60 seconds to load. Other pages
are correspondingly slow to load in both IE and Firefox. A laptop
computer connected to the same cable by wireless does not have this
problem.

CPU=AMD K6 3D 400 MH
Memory=384 MB
Display adapter = Diamond Speedstar A50 for Windows 95.

What should I look for as my limiting factor for speed.

Suggestions will be appreciated.
Stan Hilliard

Also, using the example of Comcast home page,
http://www.comcast.net/home.html

it take about 1.5 seconds to show the page after it has been covered
by another window. During that time only the browser frame is shown
and the window is black. The time to paint the page gets faster when
I cover it with a smaller window. Then when I bring it to the front
the black part is smaller and it paints faster.

Other web pages with less graphics on them are faster to show.

I would like to determine the bottleneck and fix it.

Stan Hilliard

On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 22:21:08 -0600, Stan Hilliard
put finger to keyboard and
composed:

On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 22:00:13 -0600, Stan Hilliard
wrote:

I have Comcast cable high speed Internet access, Win98SE, Firefox 1.5,
and IE6. The Comcast home page takes 60 seconds to load. Other pages
are correspondingly slow to load in both IE and Firefox. A laptop
computer connected to the same cable by wireless does not have this
problem.

CPU=AMD K6 3D 400 MH
Memory=384 MB
Display adapter = Diamond Speedstar A50 for Windows 95.

What should I look for as my limiting factor for speed.

Suggestions will be appreciated.
Stan Hilliard

Also, using the example of Comcast home page,
http://www.comcast.net/home.html

it take about 1.5 seconds to show the page after it has been covered
by another window. During that time only the browser frame is shown
and the window is black. The time to paint the page gets faster when
I cover it with a smaller window. Then when I bring it to the front
the black part is smaller and it paints faster.

Other web pages with less graphics on them are faster to show.

I would like to determine the bottleneck and fix it.

Stan Hilliard

I'm using Opera, an AMD K6-2 450MHz CPU, 128MB memory, and onboard SiS
5597/8 graphics. I have a user Javascript routine that suppresses
loading of flash, banner ads, and such like, but the remainder of the
Comcast page still takes at least 40 secs to load and render. My ADSL
download speed is about 50kB/s.

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