so, you're saying that a particular application is having problems keeping a network session established, then you have to quit that app, and restart it? that just doesn't add up to me. a good way to test intermittent tcp connectivity would be to run a continuous ping over an hour or so, and log its output to a file, then look at that file for how many missing entries there are, but be sure the target host is nearby and reliable - like your default gateway would be a good choice. or simply ftp a large file somewhere a few successive times to see if it transfers every time, or if it can't complete the upload/download. what you describe sounds like an application is having problems in general, and not necessarily with network connectivity. what's the app? On Tuesday, April 15, 2003, at 06:31 AM, John Guy wrote: > I seem to be getting an instability in maintaining my network/ip > connection > that is odd... > > No real rhyme or reason to it just keeps going off then coming back > VERY > slow until the application is quit and restarted, which seems to reset > whatever is not right but it keeps coming back to slow it all down > again... > > Anyone else noticed this this?