Uninstalled and reinstalled the framework and it's fixed. takes only a couple seconds to fire up the first time. Pretty much instant the second time.

I don't think there is a pure .NET way to do this. You'll have to use p/invoke and call into some system dlls (winsock2?) to get the information. I don't have any experience with winsock to know where to look though. James Sonork ID: 100.11138 - Hasaki "Not be to confused with 'The VD Project'. Which would be a very bad pr0n flick. :-D" - Michael P Butler Jan. 18, 2002