Subj : Doc's Place
To   : George Vandervort
From : Gerald Miller
Date : Thu Oct 06 2005 07:39 am

Hello George,

    Responding to a post in the WIN95 area:
    On Wednesday October 05 2005 at 14:19,
    George Vandervort [1:382/8] wrote to Tom Walker,
    about: Doc's Place

[snip]

 GV>      d.) Broadband to Broadband Connection
 GV>          tend to work better and faster
 GV>          with fewer problems, but even
 GV>          Broadband, can have time of day
 GV>          traffic overloads on occation..

 GV> My suggestion, when you have these problems is to wait 5-10 minutes
 GV> and try your connection again, keep a record of the time of day, Bad
 GV> times are ussually, early Morning before everybody goes to work or
 GV> school, and early evenings, after everybody is home from work..

I've been having a similar problem (not that I'm trying to connect to Doc's
Place) and I'm curious about the HOSTS file.

What is the optimum size for the HOSTS file?  Or does it really matter how
many sites are listed?

I ran Spybot - Search & Destroy and I let it add their "restricted" web
sites to my HOSTS file.  It seems like the connections have slowed down
considerably and sometimes they even time out...

Would a "_FAT_" HOSTS file be a factor?

           Cheers ... Gerald

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