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I was digging around the other day and found a copy of MS Word 1.0 for Macintosh that I used on my Mac 512 (anyone remember those?) It came on 2 400k 3.5" floppies, and one was a Mac system disk, coz the Mac didn't have a hard drive at that time, and only had a single floppy. the other disk was the program disk, so you booted the Mac from the MS supplied system disk, then put in the program disk, and ran MS Word. Now we are lucky that it fits on one CD!!

Most (read almost all) 802.11g routers will be compatible with 802.11b devices. I think that is a standards requirement. 802.11a shouldn't be a problem, as I don't remember seeing any of them on a store shelf ever.... ABSOLUTELY, DEFINITELY get a router with an ethernet switch built in, coz if you are configuring your router over wireless and you screw something up and disable the wireless, you'll need the hard wired connection to get back in. (Not to scare you or anything, but it is possible to do that). I have used Linksys routers at home for the past couple of years, and haven't had any problems. Kevan

What kind of machine are you tracing from? If it is a Unix/Linix box, your ISP (or maybe your router) might be blocking UDP (Unix flavors use UDP for ICMP).

I use CoffeeCup HTML Editor. It is a text based editor, with a preview function, so you can see what your page will look like before you post it to a server. No WSYISYG design features though. It includes lots of CGI, DHTML, JavaScripts, etc, and has some cool built in uploading functions (right-click on a page in a displayed list to upload it pre-configured ftp server locations. You can preconfigure them to the directory level on your server). Has the ability to create and store code snippets so if you have an item you use on every page, you can just grab it from your library. They produce a lot of other tools for creating web site features too. Hope I'm not violating anything here, but they are at www.coffeecup.com. They also run a rival web-hosting enterprise, but notice that I am HERE and not THERE. I WAS there, but switched to TCH coz IMHO their webhosting definitely DOESN'T ROCK

Trillian Free ... but considering purchase.

To change drive letters.... Click Start...Right-Click My Computer and select Manage. In the Computer Management Application, select Disk Management (you may have to expand the 'Storage' category). If you right-click on CD/DVD drive, or disk partitions, a pop-up menu will contain a 'Change Drive Letter and Paths...' option. You may have to assign F: to the disk partition temporarily so you can re-assign E: to the CD drive, then re-assign d: to the disk partition.

What type of hub is it? If it is a 10baseT it will introduce collisions (more ethernet tech-speak. I can explain collisions if you really want) if you plug in 3 PCs and uplink it to the switch. Probably not noticeable, but something to look at if you see those 3 PCs performing poorly on the network. Switches are pretty cheap. If you can, I would replace the hub with a switch. Also with 1 8-port switch, you *may* not have enough ports. Some switches will allow you to use all 8 ports to plug PCs into, but if you use the uplink port (which you will have to do) they sometimes make one of the regular ports unavailable.

Thumbs Up Congrats Zach and Ty. (Belated - Been out of town.. at the beach and :Nerd: in PIX firewall training)

Works OK for me... C:\Documents and Settings\Kevan>tracert www.gunbound.net Tracing route to www.gunbound.net [211.33.122.170] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms 10.91.136.1 2 7 ms 7 ms 8 ms fe-2-5-rr01.longhill.md.md02.comcast.net [68.87. 59.197] 3 7 ms 8 ms 9 ms srp-8-1-ar01.owingsmill.md.md02.comcast.net [68. 87.59.225] 4 8 ms 9 ms 7 ms pos-7-1-cr01.whitemarsh.md.core.comcast.net [68. 87.19.173] 5 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms 12.118.102.9 6 15 ms 15 ms 14 ms tbr2-p032501.n54ny.ip.att.net [12.123.3.86] 7 14 ms 16 ms 13 ms ggr1-p370.n54ny.ip.att.net [12.123.1.125] 8 16 ms 15 ms 16 ms 208.51.134.5 9 14 ms 15 ms 16 ms pos3-0-2488M.cr2.NYC1.gblx.net [67.17.64.157] 10 85 ms 87 ms 99 ms so3-0-0-2488M.cr2.PAO2.gblx.net [67.17.93.89] 11 86 ms 87 ms 86 ms pos7-0-622M.ar1.PAO2.gblx.net [67.17.67.250] 12 92 ms 94 ms 93 ms 67.17.163.22 13 225 ms 230 ms 230 ms p11-darkblue.thrunet.com [211.110.7.65] 14 234 ms 235 ms 235 ms 210.117.126.17 15 235 ms 234 ms 235 ms 210.117.121.130 16 237 ms 234 ms 234 ms 210.117.121.165 17 238 ms 236 ms 237 ms 210.221.0.135 18 238 ms 236 ms 237 ms 211.33.122.170 Trace complete.

32 is respectable for someone that doesn't live here. I doubt I could remember all of the counties of England! It's been almost 20 yrs since I lived there.

Hey Andy, Do you still live in England? I'm an ex-pat myself, living in the US and I got all 48 (with a couple of boings).

Hey Nat, How is the networking project going? Your first post was right. You don't need a degree in Comp. Sci to do this. Most of the input I would have given you has been given already by others, so I just wanted to check to see how things were going. I live in MD too, BTW, so if you need some help, I might be able to chip in. Kevan

Check out the Netopia line of ISDN routers. They have a 10base-T hub built in, so you should be able to connect your ISDN line to the 'outside' of the router, a WAP (Wireless Access Point) to the 'inside' of the router, then connect all your wireless enabled computers to the WAP. The ISDN router will handle sharing the internet connection. This is kind of the old tech way to do it, as there are now wireless ISDN routers: Look at this product: http://www.sercomm.com/IR706H.htm or in the UK: http://uk.insight.com/apps/productpresenta...A2600W&src=KELK Search Kelkoo.co.uk for wireless ISDN router. Kevan

Here's my cube at work with the TCH Hompage on the microscopic laptop monitor on the left. Hope you can see it. Photo taken with my Sony Clie NX70V. Kevan