Hello everyone, Just to let you know we have now solved our home network problem. thank you George for your helpful suggestions. I found the information on the Microsoft website useful for testing each computer's connections and how they interact with each other. this will be helpful for me as I am purchasing a Toshiba laptop from dolphin running windows XP Home. this is certainly a different animal from earlier versions of windows. Best wishes, Clive Pallett ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq