Thanks Christian,

My XP is a fresh install, as I had to format my hdd 7 times in order to get Roxio's CD burning program to work (it's patch doesn't work really well).

I'm thinking that it might be the affinity problem since my system is SMP.

Stan


I think Tilo is right.
Give it a try with a fresh installation.

I have just installed a fresh installation of WinXP to examine
your issue and - you won't believe it - there were no connection
delays.

I have just installed XP for this purpose - and I have connected
several DBs.


Regards,

Christian




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