>HI Naomi
>
>The time out error is not specific and not 100% reproducible.
>
>Appreciate if you could advise
>
>Thanks & Best Regards

Hi,

Looks like Sergey pointed you to the article explaining the problem. I was just thinking about the problem in general. Say, when I was working on ASP.NET project we also were getting timeouts when we all were trying to access SQL Server on the network. For development each of us installed SQL Server locally and then we used local connection, the timeout errors went away. We never really tried to solve the problem to be able to use SQL Server on the network.

Also there were several threads in the past here on this problem, but I don't know if they can be helpful or relevant to your case.

Let me know if you want me to search for them.