Alright, I'm getting annoyed with routers at this point...I tried 2 Addtron routers (lame) and a Netgear and have had the same problem: After about 10-15 minutes my ping starts going thru the roof...I can ping Geocities for example and get a reply of like 30ms but after a few minutes it starts going up and stays up until I reboot the router...my ping to the router never changes so it's only between the router and the outside that has a problem but I've checked all my numbers (IP, DNS, etc.) and they all seem fine...it's just a simple @home internet sharing situation and I'm running win2K...any ideas? This is driving me nuts...I want to get back to my CounterStrike!!!