Oh yea, thanks for jarring my memory. Sounds exactly like a cable modem which uses your TV cable. Are you positive it is using your regular phone line? Didn't you have to have your regular phone line replaced with one that could handle ADSL? As far as I remember, ADSL is split into 3 channels. One for 1.5 MB download, one for 256 K upload (compressed to 512 K) and one analog channel for your phone.

>ADSL is supposed to provide 1.5 MB per second download and 512K upload. One download I did transferred at 200 KB/sec. compared to my 28.8 modem at 4.5 K. I guess it's about 50 times faster than a regular 28.8 dialup. The modem/connection is always on. It uses my regular phone line but does not affect phone conversation. The modem connects to the PC via Ethernet (requires an Ethernet card in the PC). the cost is only $40 a month, so it's only $10 more than my old 28.8 dialup. The $50 install included the ethernet card.
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>You can pay more and get static IP addresses (I have a dynamic one, but it hasn't changed yet. Maybe if I turn the modem off.) I have two PC at home networked (so one PC has two ethernet cards) and I am using software so both can access the net. This works well too.
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>>Very neat. Could you explain ADSL and how fast it is?
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>>FYI - Rick Strahl did something similar at FoxTeach in Toronto and accessing data from his machine in I believe Hawaii. He was accessing VFP tables though. Similar performance, the initial connection was slow but data access after that was pretty good.
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>>>FYI
>>>I just installed an ADSL modem at home and thought I would try some things out. I have WIN95 running on my PC and also SQL Server 7.0. So at work this morning I managed to create an ODBC connection to my remote, at home, SQL Server database using my IP address as the machine name.
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>>>In VFP I created a connection using the ODBC DSN and then created a few remote views against the tables (I used the Northwind database). Performance is excellent, once the connection is opened (a little slow, but with shared connections, subsequent selects are very snappy!)
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>>>Anyway, it puts a whole new light on Client/Server.