For some reason, Netscape seems to look for a connection before it fully displays itself.....unless you're willing to wait forever. I have this problem when we get hit in the middle of our sessions with a change in lease of our IP from our DSL (pppoe). Opera, on the other hand does not seem to have this problem. I know this because I have to use the browser to enter the setup for our Linksys BEFSR41 router to "disconnect" and then "connect" to get the connection going again... Rob On Sunday 14 January 2001 16:35, you wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Paul wrote: > > Hmmm... for some strange reason the problem is fixed. > All I had to do was go online, and start netscape. ???? > After that the problem disappeared. I don't get it...