Searching for Proxy Settings 1

[billsnyder94]

I'm running Windows 98SE. My DSL provider is SBC (yeah, my tough luck.) I have 2 machines on my home ethernet network, connected with a small OEM rounter. When I open IE 6 I get a message "searching for proxy settings." Takes a minute or more and then my home page loads with no problem. I've checked every Windows networking setting I can find, and see no place where I've selected a proxy server setting. This is quite annoying, anyone have any ideas? One more thing, I use Norton firewall, but since this started I've disabled it.
thanks,

 

[browolf]

in internet explorer/internet options/connections/ lan settings have u got
automatically detect settingd
turned on? ===============
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[billsnyder94]

Yes I do.

 

[browolf]

Turning it off might fix the delay. ===============
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[billsnyder94]

That did it. Thanks muchly.