Thought it was my shaky connection but I had the same problems. Timing out, very slow response and there above I got regularly a message saying that one of the patches could not be found (during the loading of the list of patches !!!???) after which I was told to try another server. Must be something amiss. No clue what though. CR>Well, the last couple of days my connection to the ftp CR>server and the SuSE CR>website has timed out. With YaST in the YOU module it CR>seems to stall while CR>trying to get/load the list of ftp servers. And with CR>the website, it seems CR>unusually slow and often times out. CR>Anyone else have this problem or a clue as to why and CR>what to do about it? CR>TIA, Curtis CR>-- -- \\|||// (o) (o) ==========================.oOO==( )==OOo.=============================== Constant Brouerius van Nidek constant@indo.net.id Bogor Indonesia ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jakarta Building and Fumigation, web site sponsor of Living in Indonesia, A Site for Expatriates, http://www.expat.or.id ************************************************************************ Registered Linux user 183145 " Every little BYTE helps " NTReader v0.36w(P)/Beta (Registered) in conjunction with Net-Tamer.