Clear the checkbox in Internet Options | Connections <Tab> | LAN settings <Button> | Automatically detect settings <click OK> <click Apply> <click OK> – to close Internet Options
Do this and you’ll never have an issue and things like “Internet TV” in Media Center and Zune Marketplace will fly.
Consider using OpenDNS www.opendns.com – set up a free account, which you can use to control access to sites for your family/kids, etc. Their Host Named Public DNS are:
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
Set these up in your router.
The above applies to all versions of Internet Explorer.
***Regretfully, Xbox uses the same default settings, and while it is alleged to make network discovery easier, it utterly bakes the Zune Marketplace browsing and search experience. Unfortunately, in Xbox there is no way to clear the feature. Getting Microsoft to pay attention to this and getting them to change it has been futile. No one I’ve spoken to even understands why with each request, it first checks to see what its connection is (the connection state), which in the days of unreliable dial up, and early always on connections, may have been helpful, but today it accounts for 90% of all drops and actual loss of signal as it floods one’s router with request packets. Clearing that one box on all your home/SOHO PC’s will make an enormous difference in what you experience on the web.***
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