Hi, just a quick post here, I have heard quite a bit of talk around the web of 'funny things' happening with IPv6 on Microsoft OS's, especially XP. One thing that has helped a lot of people is the disablement of certain 'enhancement' services. Even if you arenât really having any IPv6 problems, this may help you to drop you ping time. Firstly XP (and I think 2000, 2003?) come with a network service called 'QoS (Quality of Service) Packet scheduler. Without going into too much detail, this thing holds on to packets, and only let them hit the relevant IP stack in an order and on a time-frame it thinks allows for the best 'quality' of the network. Unfortunately it doesn't seem IMHO to know too much about IPv6. If you want to try disabling it (you can always re-enable it later) simply open up your Internet connections network properties, go to the networking tab, choose the QoS scheduler, and click uninstall. NOTE: you may have to disconnect ALL network connections for windows to actually uninstall without complaining. I have seen this really help some peopleâs connections and ping times, but it may not help you (standard disclaimers apply). Also, another service that _some_ ISPs ship with a connection is a service called DNE or sometimes Deterministic Network Enhancer. To put it quite simply, I have seen this service CRIPPLE some IPv6 (and IPv4 for that matter) networks. Note the word SOME though. You may want to try disabling this as well if you are looking for some improvement. PLEASE NOTE! This may actually help some connections and I heard that some ISPs may _require_ this service to be activated to get a reliable / fast connection. So try disenabling/enabling at your own risk. Just my 2c Hope this helps, Alex. :P