Earthlink wants $9.95 per month PLUS the purchase of a DSL modem with a built in hub for $99.95 (free after rebate) or $249.95 ($150.00 after rebate) for a wireless access point. They make a killing off those that don't know how to use an old 486 as a firewall/NAT server. Alan On Monday 18 March 2002 06:06 am, you wrote: > Does Cox need to know NIC machine address of the external NIC or anything > like that? E-Smith uses RH 7.1 as a base. I was really surprised to learn > Cox is charging $6.95 to have a second box on line.