On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 09:54 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > Your modem contains a router. ADSL needs that. To be pedantic, and not to lead someone else down the garden path, no it does not. You can have a straight ADSL modem, that is little more than a box between analogue phone line and digital communication to the computer, and have the computer handle the rest (authentication, networking issues, etc.) -- (This box runs FC5, my others run FC4 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.