RE: [Sheflug] Delay In Loading Web Pages

["Morris, David (Allvac, UK)" <david [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Tuesday 17 May 2005 14:04, Alec Melling wrote:
> > On Tuesday 17 May 2005 13:42, Gareth wrote:
> > > If this resolves pretty quickly, then its not likely a DNS issue.
> >
> > Response was almost instant, so it is not likely to be a DNS issue?
> > Does this mean it is likely to be a DHCP issue?
> >
> > If yes has anyone any ideas where to go next?
> 
> My adsl gateway disconnects from the internet after 5 mins 
> inactivity and then takes ~30 secs to reconnect when a 
> request is made. Do you have something similar?
> 

That was more or less what I was getting at. Perhaps there's a checkbox
on the Netgear router for persistent connection. That should eliminate
most of the delay if it is this that's causing it. (I know there's one
on IpCop!)

-- 
David
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