Stumped, maybe because I've played with this stuff a lot over the last 7 years...but...my ISP just changed my IP address. No longer can connect to anything and the last extnodes file was right before they made the change Thursday night. Might have been Wednesday, doesn't matter. There was nothing to change in the rpt.conf file, everything looks normal except the only obvious thing is that I'm not seeing rpt_extnodes updating. I put an entry in rpt.conf for a node I normally connect to (27891) and get /__auto_congest: Auto-congesting call due to slow response// /Checked port forwarding rules on the Verizon router, and is normal. I also *can* connect to usual nodes via the echolink port./(W8VT is 27849 and 606945 echo. echo works) /Really stumped but operating under a medically induced handicap (fever). Anybody have any words of wisdom as to what I may be overlooking. Worked fine until Verizon re-did everything that night. / /Again, thanks for bearing with me but this bug has me down and this isn't looking too clear to me. GeorgeC W2DB 2360/ /