Maybe I'm missing something in the translation? I already have a local network. A crossover cable (which i do have btw) would be totally useless in the total scheme of things as they stand now. Each computer has a software firewall, and the router is the hardware firewall, set up the way i wish it to be setup. My interest was to see what it (the program) does between the machines. On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 13:49:11 -0800, cuffy10@xxxxxxxxxxx took time to say the following: > Ah, but your network isn't a "local network". If you use Network Magic > you are connected to the WWW, with both physical and software type > firewalls to contend with. > If you want a local network get a crossover cable ! > This is major league stuff with baddies lurking just the other side of > the little black box with the blinking lights. For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught To say the things he truly feels and not the words of one who kneels ** YOUR HELP IS URGENTLY NEEDED ** DONATE to Hurricane Katrina victims: http://www.redcross.org/ DONATE Housing (Spare room, shelter) http://www.hurricanehousing.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Talk Shop http://www.computertalkshop.com Un-subscribe/Vacation, http://www.computertalkshop.com/list_options.htm List HowTo: http://www.computertalkshop.com/faq.htm To join Computer Talk Shop's off topic list, please goto: http://computertalkshop.com/other_cts_lists.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------