Dear group from a coupe of weeks - after updating my ubuntu 16 - I experienced very often significant delay while getting data from yahoo. Gretl windows "freeze" of if you prefere became grey for minutes (also dozens).  Before the same download was made in seconds, much more less than one minute. Here my code ------------------------------------------------------- # Apro un set di 100 giornate con nulldata 100 # 5 rilevazioni settimanali che iniziano il 1 marzo 2016 e indico che è una serie temporale setobs 5 2016-06-01 --time-series # chiama la funzione yahoo_get include yahoo_get.gfn # scarico i titoli  loop foreach i A2A.MI ATL.MI AZM.MI BMED.MI BMPS.MI BP.MI BPE.MI       A=yahoo_full("$i") endloop Please note i cutted the titles list: they are normally more than 50 and less 100, because i am interested in behaviour of the components of market indexes. ------------------------------------------------------- I dont know how to handle this situation because I'm not shure if a) there is a problem in my line, but I dont think: tests and others activities are ok.  b) there was an unsaid change in yahoo's download policy. Maybe they decided to slow down the data rate (IE reducing the band). c) Yahoo has some problems not yet solved.  d) May be, after upgrading, appened some modest conflict between the OS and yahoo_get; SO i ask if somebody can give me a suggestion how to handle this or if you too have experienced some strong delay in the next weeks.