Hello again, Regretfully, I wrote an answer to your first posting without reading your second posting. If you are using a DSL connection plus an Ethernet card that suggests to me that you are either operating or working toward having a local area network. If that is true then a whole new set of issues are introduced. First, you need to be using an operating system that is capable of performing Internet routing and, unless your DSL provider is giving you multiple static IP addresses, you will also need to be running Network Address Translation (NAT) software to prevent your private IP network addressing space from crossing the NAT server. Personally, for security reasons I would prefer that my ISP not furnish either static or multiple IP addresses so that I can make the machines behind my network front-end non-routable from the Internet. If, based on your message header information and your statement about the age of the computer, you are running Windows 98 then you are probably better off buying Windows 2000 (assuming you like Microsoft products--I don't) or you might also consider Windows NT. You need a server rather than end user level operating system to front-end a network. Since I don't trust Microsoft software to protect my data from Internet compromise I front-end my own network with BSD UNIX. It handles the NAT, XNTPD (time synchronization), and supports a software based firewall filter for my network. Who installed the DSL connection? Cheers, Jason MOConqrr@aol.com wrote: > I just wanted to thank all those listers that sent me replies to my problem. > It seems to be the consensus that it may be the battery. So--I will check > into how easy it is to replace.... > > I am not sure if this problem came because of installing a DSL modem and > ethernet card on my computer (a month ago) or not. But it sure seems as if I > have had (coincidentally?) so many problems since doing that to my computer. > It is only two years old. I use AOL and it has continuously 'bumped' me off > before finishing loading when I sign on, and I am not sure that is because of > the DSL ! But also my printer gave out and I installed a new one plus a new > scanner (was on sale!), then Photo Suite 4.0---all last weekend. I really > don't think all that did anything to the computer, but ...I am not a hardware > person. > > Thanks again! > > Maggee Smith > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query!