I have asked this question before, but after some more research I need to ask in a different way. My laptop users with Windows 2000 have fast access to our OWA 2003 - through DSL or dialup. Each screen switch takes about 10 seconds (after the first loading of the inbox/calendar/etc). My laptop users with Windows XP have extremely slow access to our OWA 2003 - through DSL or dialup -- can take 3 minutes to load each screen, i.e., inbox, calendar, open an email, etc. Both type of users have the newest update for IE/MS SPs, etc. I do not believe I can enable compression unless I have both a FE and a BE server (please correct me if I misunderstood). Can someone shed some light on the subject? I've looked everywhere. Thanks, Dee Arnold