After coming back to place of work one weekend, a handful of my clients had called me with the same question- “Why is the ‘internet’ so slow??”
Yes, of course, the typical end-user question.
I’ve been at this for a couple of days and can not, for the life of me, figure this out.
On my end user machines, I fire up IE and the first site you try to hit is extremely slow to come up. I of course decided to throw out some ICMP traffic and see what kind of response I got. DNS works fine.. no loss of packets.. Huh?
After the first page loads, everything is well. But restart IE and it happens again. Every new instance of IE that is started does the same thing.
I of course opted to try out Mozilla on the machine (maybe a bad IE update was pushed on these machines). Mozilla loads perfectly. No pause on the first page… all new instances work fine.
A lot of you will say “Just use Mozilla.” Of course I want to, for security reasons and Mozilla is an awesome piece of software, but end users as we all know are picky SOB’s and they don’t like change – even if the GUI is the same, but the name is different.
Anyone else experience this problem? I can’t seem to find the button to push.
Thanks!