i don't think it's a browser problem. in my experience it means your isp is at fault. this happens when their equipment is hopelessly overloaded or just plain broken. i went through a long spell of this with another isp, and they did admit it was a problem with their network, not my system (using netscape, fwi). contact your isp and see what they are doing to fix it. another test is that usually, usually the isp's own pages are not affected by this problem, only sites external to their system. interestingly you can also have sites just stop responding, until you hit stop and reload which may produce a rapid flawless load. my current isp has been experiencing allot of this other type of problem lately, and to their credit they've notified users of the problem and some brief shutdowns to fix it. in any case, as much as i loath IE, it's not likely to be a problem at your end. the browser is simply letting you know that things are broken. you could probably wait days and not get the page to transfer, the browser is simply letting you know that eons have passed and the data is not coming.
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