Hi, I would talk to your provider and out the IP change. I've had the same dynamic IP for the past 8 months. Check to see if you are sending a renew IP request to the DHCP server. I would also check to see if you are experiencing packet loss or errors. The DHCP server may be seeing you as a problem system. I know of one fellow who had a problem similar to yours and he complained to Sympatico and they fixed his constantly changing IP address. It may also be that they do not have enough IP "real" IP addresses available for your subnet and have to take away your IP address and probably others to service new requests. Don't you just love DHCP. Doesn't it stand for Don't Hold Connections Permanently? I have some kids at home and also in the area who play these Internet games and when those wonderful little darlings get on, my connection speed hovers between 0 and a 14KB modem. This may be another area to look at to look at to solve your problem. Regards, Frank -----Original Message----- From: oclug-bounces [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca [mailto:oclug-bounces [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca]On Behalf Of Mike Sent: March 6, 2005 11:31 AM To: oclug [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca; linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca Subject: [oclug] dhcp grief Well I thought I had isolated my troubles. But no such luck. I wrote a little script to track my IP, when things were bad the IP was changing every 10 minutes (the time of the cron job). After trying to tweek dhcp and the pppoe configurations on my SuSE 9.0 machine I gave up and switched to the linksys BEFR41 router and WOW things were fast for a day. Now since it's the weekend its crap again. I have 50 messages queued up and my IP changes after downloading 4 messages then things hang. Forget loading a web page the IP changes before it loads. This fits in with the earlier observation of being able to ping a site but not load the page. Still have trouble explaining why the trouble seems to happen on Fridays-Sunday or when someone wants to look something up. Friends still on dial up claim to have faster downloads. A test downloading firefox put me in line with a 33.6. The online DSL speed tests say things are OK, but after hitting the back button it reports I have a T3. Could a dhcp server be like a kettle, neither work when watched? PS: CJOH tech feature at 6 will have a bit on old computers -- Collector of vintage computers http://www.ncf.ca/~ba600 Machines to trade http://www.ncf.ca/~ba600/trade.html