> > 1) Forwarded traffic (most notably web) is VERY slow with XP clients. > > have you tried with a proper web browser, such as firefox ? IE is known > as not respecting the RFC for TCP and sending the HTTP request as data > in the first "SYN" packet (which is only recognised by IIS, of course) > so as to 'make' IE appear faster than it really is.. Yes. In my last example of the slow browing to an attached linksys, I was using Firefox on XP. Previously I had thought it was all IE, but it's not. Dave