On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 11:02:56AM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: ... | Everytime I reboot my windoze, everything is normal and fast again. Hehe. This sounds normal to me ;-). Could it be that sshd or the firewall stuff on the linux side has some initial delay? Other than that (or maybe windows doesn't like creating a connection after a while) I don't know what the problem could be. -D