I have to wonder if that might really be a problem with AVG's website
checking service (whatever it's called - I can't remember the name at the
moment)

Steve

"Troutman" <Troutman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the tip, but it didn't work. Browsign is still much slower than
> before (with RC1) and some features just became unavailable (don't work),
> like Myspace's media player (in musicians pages).
> Heres a print screen of what Tcpview looks like when I visit Myspace:
> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...999/Akamai.jpg
>
> In my laptop, I kept IE8 RC1 and it still works great...
>
> "Steve Hebert" wrote:
>
>> Even though you don't have many tabs open, it shouldn't hurt to give this
>> re-registration a shot:
>> http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=2443
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> "Troutman" <Troutman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:8CF63E50-B311-46BF-8D3D-CD94CDD12FC5@microsoft.com...
>> > "VanguardLH" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Ben Humpert wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > How could a huge list of restricted sites creating such an amount of
>> >> > (concurrent) connections to akamai servers and why?
>> >>
>> >> " ... browsing speed became extremely slow and I have 10 to 20
>> >> connections ..."
>> >>
>> >> Those were TWO problems described in one post. The huge number of
>> >> Restricted Sites entries addresses the slow response (when moving
>> >> between tabs or opening IE8). Nothing to do with the other problem of
>> >> a
>> >> large number of concurrent connections to Akamai.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Thanks for replying.
>> > Answering to the questions VanguardLH posted:
>> > - In one of the ocasions I had that huge amount of connections I had
>> > two
>> > tabs opened - one with iGoogle and one with a Myspace page. In the
>> > other
>> > ocasion, I had just a YouTube page opened.
>> >
>> > - I'm using TCPView to check the connections.
>> >
>> > Regarding the sugestion posted also by VanguardLH, by removing all
>> > those
>> > restricted sites entries, won't that make the browser less safe?
>> > Supposing that's the cause for the decrease in browsing speed, why
>> > didn't
>> > that happen with IE8 Beta2 and RC1? I still have RC1 in my laptop, and
>> > the
>> > browsing speed is normal. I have the same security apps in both
>> > computers
>> > (AVG and Spybot).
>>