That should all be taken care of. I just took a look and I don't see anything checked that would cause a problem. No WINS, no MS this or that. The only thing that was checked was a feature for importing an lmhosts file for NetBIOS lookups. And currently I don't have an lmhosts file.

Without the really long hosts, my connection takes what I consider an average time to complete. It may be that I launched the dialer while the HOSTS file was still being parsed after bootup. I'll go read the original page to see what 2K information they mention.

Bruno