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The computer guru's never cese to amaze me so here goes.

I've got a HP Vectra VL400, PIII, 256MB Ram.
I have Verizon DSL and it's pretty good however I find when I'm surfing the web, everything seems to stop dead every now and then.

It isn't dependent on what site, time of day, anything I can think of. I'll move through a few sites or a few pages within a thread and then I'll click on something else and .... nothing. I'll wait a moment or two and then off it goes again straight to the site/page I clicked on. It isn't that the site is slow to load, I would see that in the status bar.

This has been happening for a while. I tried using 2 different 56k modems with 2 different ISP's and now with Verizon DSL, it's still happening.

A work buddy has exactly the same computer as mine and has the same problem. Weird thing is with his though is that he is sahring his internet access (Verizon DSL I think) with his wife's pc via a router. Her computer has never had this issue. His behaves exactly like mine.

Idea's would be welcome ..... Thanks.

download adaware. get rid of all that spy ware you probably have, then updating ie, and running disk fragment over night
www.lavasoft.nu for adware when its done searching your hd right click on the list of spyware and check all
good luck

Adaware gets run every day a couple of times, I'm running IE6 and defragment runs once per week thru a scheduler.

I've got around ~20gigs free out of 30.

Thanks though, any reply is appreciated.

Check out DSLreports.com and go to the TWEAKS section...run a tweak test and then follow the instructions for downloading/using Dr.Tcp...one major problem is that you have to set some values in the windows registry to allow more info to flow at any time...called MTU...
I had the same problems..
the tweak test should give you a fairly decent indication of what you need to do as well as how to fix it. Might also be your location/distance from Telco office, the line in your home, etc...