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Old 19th July 2008
JMJ_coder JMJ_coder is offline
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Hello,

I kid you not. It is a DSL connection. It is fine if you warm boot the machine, but not if cold boot it. If you're quick, you can get the check that the connection is there before Windows Firewall takes over. If you turn off the Firewall, the connection is there. It is not a connection error, it is an issue with the Firewall - something in its settings.

It doesn't take five to ten minutes to 'connect' - it takes five to ten minutes for it to play nice with the Firewall. But, as I mentioned earlier, this is only on a cold boot. If I simply reboot the machine, it works immediately. It started after a one month trial of Windows Live One Care.

The ISP (SBC AT&T DSL) simply indicates that it has a firewall - but no specifics (it could be a simple port 80 filter).

@BSDfan666
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