>Good heavens! How many staff to man all those machines? I suppose this is your office rather than your home. just me and my lonesome, at home, in one small house with Anita my wife and the pack of rabid dobermans disguised as a small ferret called Coco >Is Anita your teenage daughter? If so you may need more than a firewall to keep her from crashing all the machines at once! I'll tell her you said that! She's actually 40-something going on 17 :) Actually it's much easier havinf discrete machines for different tasks, much better than overloading one or having a problem with a bit of software that takes out the whole machine! >When I was working I had 77 machines (PC's) to keep running with about 80 grown up students to look after. you know.. I am SO trying to picture that in my mind.. ;) karl