Mark, that is one of the features that seems to work BETTER in the later programs. I use Win2000 Pro and use that feature regularly (usually when one of my blankety-blank Microsoft programs freezes).

John and Amos--thanks for your thoughts on Routers. Perhaps I'll be the guinea pig for this one?

We use wireless at the library where I work--it's slower than the direct connection, but quite versatile. It's also VERY VULNERABLE to all sorts of piggyback activity. If you have wireless in your home, someone driving down the street with a laptop and the proper connection equipment can tap into your wireless network. You can't protect the things. So I'd much rather go with the hard-wired router and assign addresses to my computers (and I plan to continue to use the firewall) than to leave myself wide-open to folks who might borrow my connection. As it is, anyone with the right equipment can come into the library (I work at a state university, so anyone can come into this library and use much of the databases and such there) and use the networks with their equipment. Or they can sit outside, probably unnoticed, and connect. It's probably the moral equivalent of leaving a bowl of very nice candy on a table with a little sign that says "Do Not Touch."

SRS