Hi all, I would love to connect my Linux box directly to the Internet (56k dialup), and use it as a gateway to my wife's Win98 laptop. But for some reason, her PCMCIA modem (also a 56k) can connect at least 33% than my desktop machine can. I can't stand the lower speed of my dialup, so I go through the laptop. It's just not fair. Now if I were the gateway (in some other fantasy world of rainbows and unicorns) I could set up the machines so that she could access the Net as if she were connected directly to it. Can the same be finagled in reverse? I'm currently going through a proxy server on her machine, but I'd like to set things up so my Linux box has a "direct" connection. Or should I be consulting a Windows list? (Oh, please don't make me do that! :-) Miark