John - I was just putting it up as a point of interest. Although, for the price, I would seriously recommed a DSL/ cable router even if the plan is initialy 2 computers sharing files and the odd bit of Internet sharing. I'd not seen where my own network was heading when it started as 2 PCs on a 56K dialup.

Oh as another point of interest, I decided I couldn't be bothered working out what to keep on the Laptop. Just dragged the lot over to this machine... Lazy and took a bit of time but I can sort out my lack of organistation on the Laptop at my leisure now. Have downloaded another version of Linux (Ubunto) for my curiosity. Will burn that and put it on my laptop and see how it behaves - seemed OK on the live version I tried earlier. It might still end up back as purely a Win2K machine but sometimes I can't resist playing first...