I have also seen that "lag" effect. It is a bit like the first few minutes of a dial-up session, when you can get a lot of firewall activity due to late replies from sites to whoever had that IP addy before you?

AxessTerminated:

You need more RAM?.............Me will run perfectly with 512Mb of PC2100, It is also almost faultless with 384Mb. I don't care what M$ say...DO NOT go above 512Mb

I have a P4 1.7 with 0.75Gb of PC800 RAMBUS Rimms. I must get some black and yellow stickers and rename it the "crash dummy"

I have to carefully "nurse" my PII/266 with 128Mb, as resource is a real problem.

Cheers