Hola! (going multi-language here!) My connection to the net is via 2-way satellite. My upload is very slow but the download tends to move well. Unfortunately, I do get timeouts from time to time that last as little as 10s. What I'd like to do is configure nntpcache to quickly check if the connection is alive after it detects a timeout. With that in mind, what does 'networkTimeout' do? Does this switch tell nntpcache that after this threshold, the particular connection is dead and can't be revived? I see that I can probably accomplish what I want by using the 'serverDownRecheck' ... I'm hoping that I can set its unit of measure to seconds. :) Thx a lot! --- Pablo Sanchez mailto:pablo@purecarbon.com Ph : 303.939.8897 Fax: 603.720.7723 Cell: 303.717.5889