>>I found that a while back when I was using a laptop and switching between dialup and broadband while traveling, and while making repairs to other people's dialup machines in my home network. I
>think it is the easiest way of doing it.
>
>Again, thank you for your help. I am going to be trying to make my small LAN working so I am sure I will have more newbie questions. I have two books on it but it is much easier simply to ask here :)

I will try to answer any questions. I have tried to do many things to my LAN in my house so I have learned quite a few lessons.

BTW, don't plug two ends of the same network cable into your network. That lesson was learned the hard way. ;-)