Hi, David: Yes, the priority fix seems to have cured my choppiness as well. I thank you for that, because it was truly annoying. Thanks also for confirming that I'm not the lone stranger experiencing significant lag times on key echo. One issue at a time, I suppose! <grin> David Bruzos writes: > Hi Janina: > The lag does not improve much for me when I change the priorities. What goes away almost completely is the choppiness. My > speech is not all broken up. For example, without the change in priority my prompt might say something like this: > > [da,,,,,,,vi,,,,,,,,,d at h,,,,,,,ost dav,,,,,,,,,,,, id],,,,$ > > After I make the priority change, it will say: > > [david at host david]$