We are having this strange problem with an ActiveX control of ours, in fact all of our web application's activeX controls have the same problem.

On some networks, when the internet connection is down, the control takes about 20-30 seconds to open.

The controls all reference a MySQL database directly using a connection string with an ip address.

i.e = "server=192.168.0.1;database=mydb" etc.

What is causing this? On some networks this doesn't happen?

Thanks