Hi John, On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:59:22 -0400 UTC (5:59 PM -0500 UTC my time), you wrote in part: J> If I boot in XP which I no longer use, IE browses virtually immediately J> with the same fixed settings. J> If booting under SuSE, all browsers are painfully slow, typically > 30 secs J> I also have XP loaded under vmware (why the dual boot is not needed). J> IE under vmware loads a typical page in about 10 secs. Same fixed IP settings J> except the assigned IP is .136. J> I'm obviously missing something but can't determine what. Most assuredly if it takes this long, it is a DNS issue. Check your hosts file and if you are not running a DNS server, put in your ISPs DNS. Also, you you have your gateway in SUSE set up for the internal IP address of your Linksys? Typically 192.168.1.1 -- okay