When doing anything with the net. The downloading stops/hangs/times out. Http, ftp, wget, opera, mozilla, command line ftp, it doesn't matter. It even fails yast updates. It makes it very difficult to dl updates in any form, and has caused a few headaches trying to figure out a problem with what I think is an application. There is plenty of free space, system doesn't crash or hang on anything. And nothing noticeable in the logs. It doesn't do this under windows 2k, or any of my other computers on my network. Could someone can give me some clues in what dirrection to look? Is there any more information I need to be giving? System: AMD 850 Slot A Epox EP-7kxa Creative Lads SB16 Isa (ya ya, I will get a turle beach santa cruze very soon) 386 Ram (pc 133) Adaptec 29160 SCSI card 2 WD 18g 10k RPM drives 1 Seagate 9g 10k ROM drive (boot, w2k/suse) 1 Atlas 10k 9g Zip (scsi too) Plextor CDROM ultraplex wide (scsi) AOpen geforce2 mx 200 (nvidia drivers loaded, but not the latest) Linksys LNE100TX (rev 2) System boots w2k, and I have boot.ini pointing to suse 7.2. Hard drives have plenty of cooling, disabled on board sound(yuck!) and IDE in bios. using latest bios on everything that I can update. (cdrom, 29160, EP-7kxa, etc) Any ideas? any questions? I would really like to figure this out. Thanks -Cody