Went into the office and found the PC chomping away at something, Netmeter showed 6 kbytes/s traffic both up and down. IPtools showed 14 screens of TCP connections to skype.exe processes, at least 400 active connections to a huge range of external IPs. Router firewall reported 2000 active streams (its limit) rebooted it with a new limit of 2500 and they were quickly filled up too. Email and web browsing very unreliable, lots of timeouts. Looked like dear old 192.168.0.35 had become part of Skype's infrastructure again. Couldn't even make a Skype call as it couldn't find a proxy ! bit off when it overloads the system to the point where it can't work itself. Such is life, Skype get paid millions by Ebay and I get to provide an infinitesimal part of their infrastructure :-) Phil