I'm worse off now. I can't get on the internet from the garage. My win 98 computer won't let me reinstall the NIC. It's a total f'ing mess. I just want to take both of my machines into the woods and relieve some of the stress with my 454 Casull. To top it off I received a notice from belkin that they will be refunding the purchase price of both my router and NIC. Seems they mislead me about data rates and transmission distances. I was kind of wondering why I couldn't get a signal with the antennas only two feet apart. I have to quit trying for the night, but I do feel that microsoft has made this networking thing a bit too complicated. Damn I'm tired of this shit.