A lot of different theoretical things have been discussed, but basically, if you are running Windows XP, 2000, or 2003 over a WAN with anything more than 10-20ms of latency, make the following change to the registry and you will find a world of difference. Ideally, you would make the change to both sides, but as long as one side has this, it will auto-negotiate with the other side to adjust the Start, Run, regedt32 Go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters Edit, New -> DWORD Value Then name it "Tcp1323Opts" (without the quotes) and change the value to 3 That will give you far better performance by enabling automatic TCP window size scaling as per RFC 1323 over your WAN links (hence the key name), but only to other computers which support RFC1323. XP and 2003 default to allowing scalable windows if the far side intiates the negotiation, but that will never happen unless one side has this key set. Values are: 0 (disable RFC 1323 options) - default before creating the key 1 (window scale enabled only) 2 (timestamps enabled only) 3 (both options enabled) Try this and let us know what you see. -Robert Tellurian Networks - Global Hosting Solutions Since 1995 http://www.tellurian.com | 888-TELLURIAN | 973-300-9211 "Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin