Looking through the logs on $work's site I notice that I am getting a significant number of requests for HTML pages with gzip turned off. The extent of this is that while these are only about 1/4 of requests the total bandwidth used is greater than the "compressed" versions. eg: Bandwidth Hits/minute Page size URL 438.2 Kb/s 21 h/min 154 KB http://www.[].co.nz/ 211.3 Kb/s 54 h/min 28 KB http://www.[].co.nz/ Looking though the logs [1] and going off the knowledge that since every browser including IE6 supports compression I am guessing that the problem is people's proxy servers stripping off the "Accept-Encoding: gzip" headers that the browsers are generating. So those of you who are running proxy servers please have a quick check and make sure it is handling compression correctly. A simple option change may save you half your bandwidth. Here is a test page that will indicate if compression requests are being sent through to remote sites. http://www.whatsmyip.org/http_compression/ [1] and ignoring the people like smokeping.net24.net.nz who like using me as a test site. -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT.