On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Gordon Haverland wrote: > value, such that if it hadn't recieved a packet in a certain > length of time, it would "tickle" the other end to see if it > could re-initiate transfer. You mean like the timeout value that defaults to 2 mins? Read apt.conf to see how to set it even lower if you want. Probably also want to enable retires. Jason