Phantomjs works but is very slow

Question

I am trying to take a screenshot of a webpage with PhantomJS. Specifically, I am using the example of capturing espn.com from this example. My code looks like this:

Answer 1

I didn't thought that the following would work but for me it did (on Windows):

open Internet Explorer > Internet Options > Connections > LAN Settings and disable the "Automatically detect settings"

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