>I've tested with s_client between my PC and an AWS EC2 instance. I've also tried using s_tunnel and nmap/ncat. The results appear the same. Using wireshark I see a lot of TCP retransmissions. That sounds like a network issue. Try testing using something like netcat and see if you also get TCP retransmissions. -- Senior Architect, Akamai Technologies IM: richsalz at jabber.at Twitter: RichSalz