I am using Squid on Win 2000 with 2MBPS leased line with Cisco 2621 router. In normal circumstance everything works fine but when no. of proxy requests increases, response becomes very poor and almost every page times out. This happens particulary on days when there is cricket match between India and some country. I have checked everything. There is no question of proxy overload as we can browse local web servers through proxy with fantastic response. Internet bandwidth usage is not more than 10-20% (checked thru MRTG). Cisco router is OK, as I have checked CPU and memory usage and there is no abnormal thing. Next culprit may be ISP router but when I connect it through dial-up, response is OK. So where is the problem? Any clue is welcome. Thanks in advance. Arvind