Hey all, I'm a Systems Engineer in Seattle and I've run into an issue that I need some help on. Ihaven't posted in a long time but wondering if any of you pros can help me out. I've got a Vista laptop that has super high ping times across a VPN connection. Here's the environment: Vista machine plugged directly into a Comcast cable modem Web browsing is super fast and Comcast reports ping times to this modem being around 40ms. Open up a VPN to my office in Portland OR and I get ping times to an internalserver around 1200ms! Other engineers working over VPN gettingaround 30ms to the same server, taking the same path (verified in tracert) from further away geographically. I began stopping services on the Vista laptop and noticed that as soon as I stopped the Workstation service my ping times dropped to around 20ms! Any idea what could be causing this? When it's enabled, I'm able to browse servers and shares just fine (except it's obviously slow!) What could the workstation service be doing that is causing that kind of latency? One thing I did notice...and I'm not sure if it's related...is that the "Computer Browser" service which is dependent on the Workstation service hasn't been starting, and wouldn't start when I tried to manually. I found that the Windows firewall had 2 entries for "File and Print Services" (for some strange reason) and only one was allowed through. I checked the second one and the Computer Browser service started immediately. This had no effect on my problem but thought it was interesting and wasn't sure if it had anything to do with it. Any help is appreciated. Thanks! Phil Austin