> > fascinating....
> > so you are running classic everywhere?
>
> yes
>
> > I had assumed super server
> > Do these databases, by any chance, have a lot of garbage?
>
> no, virtually no data at all presently, bigest table has about 100 rows
> This is currently a system being developed
>
> > After this first connection which is slow (and may be doing garnage
> > collection) finishes what it is doing, you can then connect OK on all
> > subsequent connection eh.
>
> the speed of the first connection is fine, it's just that any
> additional attempts to connect hang until the first exits, then one of
> the hanging one succeeds and so on
>

I'd have to suspect the OS settings then. How many TCP connections have you
allowed?
Alan