From: Michael Widenius Date: April 25 1999 9:08pm Subject: Re: Win98 & MySQL List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/2364 Message-Id: <14115.33794.25270.478583@monty.pp.sci.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >>>>> "Vladimir" == Vladimir Berezniker writes: Vladimir> Hi, Vladimir> Ping works just fine, and it definitely does not try to access it through Vladimir> dial-up. I played around with my network settings and was able to speed it up, but Vladimir> still I have about 5 second delay for each MySQL request. Interestingly enough on Vladimir> rare occasions it works instantly but that happens very rarely. As a result it is Vladimir> very difficult to write PHP scripts that access database, because it take so long to Vladimir> execute even one query. Vladimir> Sincerely, Vladimir> Vladimir Berezniker Do you connect to localhost or 'hostname' ? Another problem may be that your DNS resolving is slow. Try creating the following \windows\hosts file: 127.0.0.1 localhost and try connecting to 'localhost' Does this help? Regards, Monty