Thanks for the offer, ceebs. Soon I may be able to do something like that. A customer sales rep for my land line company called to offer me a better deal on my phone line -- $10/month less + a free DSL line with up  to 3meg bandwidth if I pay a one time $14 shipping and handling fee. Seemed like a deal to me. I will just put the DSL modem beside the cable modem, connect my ancient laptop, recently updated, and have a second access point. Amazing how quickly after I accepted the deal I got confirmation of the desirability of that deal.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."