I've worked with Henrik on this some already, and we figured out some DNS issues and stopped connections from never completing but I'm at a loss as to what would do this: (output of the squidclient mgr:active_requests for this one request. ) Connection: 0xa1f2cc8 FD 52, read 2832, wrote 10264504 FD desc: http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/e/9/6e91b9b6-96be-4936 in: buf 0x9cfe388, offset 0, size 4096 peer: 10.0.0.20:59366 me: 10.0.0.36:8080 nrequests: 2 defer: n 0, until 0 uri http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/e/9/6e91b9b6-96be-4936-940d-a5d0e8158c7 6/Demartek_Deploying_iSCSI_Storage_Solutions_2007-06.pdf log_type TCP_MISS out.offset 10263429, out.size 10263537 req_sz 1052 entry 0xb291520/F41C36EE079355533B02A547EFD9DAB5 old_entry (nil)/N/A start 1186597650.859703 (635.912090 seconds ago) username - This file is 10401 KB long, and it took 10 minutes to download via squid. That means it is running about 150-200Kbps instead of 8000-9000Kbps. Same file without squid takes about 12 seconds. The connection is a 10x10Mbps fiber connection. The squid server is the lan router and the client default gateway so any network issues would show up when proxy is off. I'm at a loss. This is 2.6STABLE_13 on Fedora core 5 kernel 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5. This became a problem only after switching from a 4x2MB cable modem connection with static ip addresses to the new 10x10Mbps fiber connection with a full 32 static addresses in a /24. The server is a single cpu Xeon @2.8 Ghz (family: 15, mode: 4, stepping: 1) with 1 GB ram (200MB-300MB free at all times) Scott Anderson sbanderson@xxxxxxxxxxxx IT Administrator ImproMed, Inc.