Blank page loads

[retiring]

I just set up a new machine and I am having this problem:

On about a third of the sites I try to load there is a flash on the status and "done" appears in the left hand corner but no page is loaded. In about half of these cases I get to the sites home page but get these results trying to navigate futher.

Am I missing something. Using ie 6

Thanks for your help

 

[bcastner]

Have you spent time at the Windows Update site bring IE 6 up to date?
What OS version, and what service pack level might you be using?

This sounds like a long fixed issue:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823386

 

[retiring]

Thanks bcastner.

xp 2003 sp2, Brand new machine. It may be my ISP. Yesterday they were dropping me after about 45 minutes with no disconnect message which has never happened with them before. I am going to check with them on Monday.

Regards
Bob

 

[bcastner]

If using DSL, it is important to get the MTU value set correctly.

For ADSL 1492 is the most common MTU, but test it:

http://www.dslreports.com/tweaks

. If you are using a Broadband router, use its configuration pages to set the MTU value you discovered above.

. Then set all client MTUs. The DrTCP utility makes this easy enough to do:

http://www.dslreports.com/drtcp

Finally, this might be a secure site issue:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;870700&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH