I was having connection problems to certain remote servers.The problem is solved. I could connect to certain problem sites with Win95, but not debian. So probably not an ISP problem, right? WRONG (embarassment is acute). I had switched ISP's, but edited the wrong chatscript in debian so was still using the old ISP. wrong chatscript was '/etc/ppp.chatscript' Embaressedly yours, Embarassedly (new word anyway?) yours, Richard