Hi all... I've been lurking here for a while, and realize that I really don't know much about the innards of networking, but I do have a question I was wondering if you could answer. If I'm in the wrong place, flame me, kick me, do whatever :) We have customers in Europe who need to download large (10 Meg+) files from us on an almost daily basis. They are all on ISDN or other low bandwidth dial-up so it takes them quite some time, if they are even succesful at all. At first glance a mirror site doesn't appeal to us since we have very frequent updates and need to provide security with frequent new user adds and changes. For now we've been living with the slow speeds and dropped transfers, but here's what I was wondering: Could a domain name be set up in Europe to point to a machine in Europe on a global service providers net (PSINet for instance). All this machine does is forward packets to a machine at our location on the same network (PSINet). The whole point of this would be to avoid overcrowded peer points where a lot of our current packetloss appears to be coming from. Does this idea have any merit, or would I simply be exchanging one problem for another? Would it even work at all? Is there a better solution that would increase our connection quality to Europe while keeping the server at our location? Thanks for your time. ---------------------------- Tom Hubina tomh@gibbsnc.com Gibbs and Associates 805-523-0004 ----------------------------