Dunno if that’s what it was or not, but, after repeated router resets, I broke down and installed Wireshark (kudos to the developers, you rock). Lovely little proggie that packs quite a wallop. Seems someone in Brazil found it necessary to abuse my poor udp ports. So I fiddled with the router a bit and banned the whole country. 😈 My irc lag is back down below half a millisecond (where it should be) and all thing internet are moving like a well oiled machine. Who knew a packet sniffer could be so much fun :party: