> Something is badly screwing up TCP, perhaps by throwing away packets > with flags that it does not like.
A misconfigured firewall? Seems unlikely as this timeout problem really happens a lot. Im also going to have a look at the Cisco ADSL router, maybe try replacing it with another one to make sure. Does anyone know commands that would allow me to do something like a tcpdump on a Cisco router? Especially Id like to see if this is ICMP related at all. I really have to localize this problem as soon as possible. Thanks, Petr