I am on a clean Vista install. Finally worked out all my network issues using
Network Magic. Using IE7, I can browse any site for about 20 minutes then get
a hourglass or waiting. I can be browsing threads in this site and then all
of a sudden a complete slowdown to the point where the connection times out.
Usually I wait a minute or so and then everything works fine.

I have very little running on the machine. I have turned of sidebar. I
looked at task manager for anything obvious hogging the network or system but
nothing really looks obvious.

I downloaded Firefox and thought it went away but got hit with it again.

Any suggestion, ideas on what to try next?

May have solved it.

See problem with old routers http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932134/en-us

I disabled TCP autotuning and IPv6 features. working much better.

"DaveP" wrote:

I am on a clean Vista install. Finally worked out all my network issues using
Network Magic. Using IE7, I can browse any site for about 20 minutes then get
a hourglass or waiting. I can be browsing threads in this site and then all
of a sudden a complete slowdown to the point where the connection times out.
Usually I wait a minute or so and then everything works fine.

I have very little running on the machine. I have turned of sidebar. I
looked at task manager for anything obvious hogging the network or system but
nothing really looks obvious.

I downloaded Firefox and thought it went away but got hit with it again.

Any suggestion, ideas on what to try next?