On Thu July 14 2005 8:52 pm, Tony Nelson wrote: > > All the machines will be in separate locations and dial in to, uhh, what? > I mean, are all those modems really necessary? If they are, who's goint to > pay the phone bill? If not, ethernet cards are pretty cheap, and so are > 10baseT switches. There may be better network topologies, but it only > needs to be better than modems. It's a long story - here's the short answer. The machines will not be in an office. They'll be dialing into an Alpha mini to do document entry and mail. Each machine needs a modem - that's the bottom line. -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA