Yeah, the program does attempt to access the Internet on the free version in order to load that little banner along the right hand side of the screen, but this sort of delay is certainly not normal. I just tested on my computer by disabling my network adapters and a report loaded up within just a couple of seconds. Does your report happen to have dynamic parameters? Those things will query your database prior to diaplaying on the screen and I am wondering if that might be the issue? Or it could legitimately be that banner if you have some sort of restrictions / security software that isn't 100% replicated with the test I tried.