Well, thanks for the honest answer, its actually not a common thing for windows users to do it seems, its very very common with linux, and easily done.You can have as many NIC's as you want with some OS's and route things however is needed.I know XP can do a shared connection with a modem, that got started with win98SE and winMe, but it was pretty unstable and hard to get to work, I figured with win2000 or XP they'd have fixed that or added to it.Every customer Ive ever done networking for with windows boxes has used a hardware router or one I built using linux,ive never messed with XP networking much either really.