To Joseph and all the others who responded to my pleas for help --

Thank you. We finally were able to get it working. It was a combination of a
bad router - flickering link light instead of steady and solid - and finding
out by accident that the DSL modem has to be powered off to get to the
router's configuration page. Nowhere -- and I mean nowhere - in the
instruction manual does it tell you that -- and I read it several times word
for word just in case there was something I was missing. But, it's all
working now -- lightning fast and smooth as glass. Thanks again for the
help.

Robin

> Does your ISP use TC/IP.  If so, make sure you haven't bound Netbeui to
TC/IP. Check TC/IP's bindings to make sure Netbeui isn't bound to it. Go to
start/run and type in winipcfg.  On the drop down make sure you select your
NIC card.  It should display the default IP of your router, and subnet mask
of 255.255.255.0.  It should also show an IP address for your computer.  If
it doesn't, click release all, then renew all.  Make sure that in TC/IP the
gateway tab is blank, that automatic assignment of IP is checked, and DNS is
disabled. Do all that when you're checking the bindings tab.  You should be
able to get into the router's setup screen. When you're done, unplug the
power cord from your DSL modem for 15 seconds, the plug it back in.  They
don't tell you that in the instructions that your DSL or Cable modem has to
reset.>>

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