"Steve Wertz" > wrote in message
...
> Visiting the FoodTV.com (www.foodnetwork.com) is a PITA on slower
> dialup modems. I've appended these entries to my 'hosts' file and
> the FoodTV pages now take about 1/3rd of the time to load.
>
> 127.0.0.1 adsremote.scripps.com
> 127.0.0.1 images.scripps.com
> 127.0.0.1 www.scripps.com
> 127.0.0.1 scripps.com
> 127.0.0.1 www.diynet.com
> 127.0.0.1 www.fineliving.com
> 127.0.0.1 www.hgtv.com
> 127.0.0.1 te.hgtv.com
> 127.0.0.1 www.shopathometv.com
>
> For Windows 95/98/ME the file is c:\windows\hosts
> For Windows NT/2000/XP the file is c:\windows\drivers\etc\hosts
> For Unix's and Linux's the file is /etc/hosts.
>
> Note that this turns off the HGTV, FineLiving, and DIYNet
> websites, too. So if you visit those sites, don't add the
> respective lines above. The most important entries are the
> scripps.com entries (FoodTV's parent company?) which is where they
> get their ads and set most of their cookies.
>
> I do this for all the websites I visit often, but are littered
> with obnoxious ads that take forever to load. My hosts file is
> over 500 lines long.


Wow, sounds like magic. Trouble is, Web pages chgange. Just how helpful is
loading cached web pages when they change often and you have no mechanism
for refreshing your cache?

Get broadband dude, and stop playing computer expert. You aren't one.

Paul