Have you tried setting the MTU (Maximum transmission size) in the registry to 1454?
http://www.users.bigpond.com/dcwithers/adsl1.htmand
http://asia.cnet.com/itmanager/netadmin/0,39006400,39089320,00.htmOther than that, can you post your connection code? Or does the same code connect faster on other operating systems?
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