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Does this happen for every host name? For example if you try to ping www.ibm.com then you will get an invalid host name error message?

If that is the case then it is definitely the DNS server on the ISP end is not functioning or the IP address for the DNS server was wrong ...

You will need to know what kind of ADSL modem or router they installed on your site. Normally all set up information such as IP address, gateway IP, DNS IP etc. will be given to you at the installation time. All you need to do is add the TCP/IP stack (protocol) into your NT network set up and you ...

Actually Static IP and Dynamic IP is more than just change and never change.

Static IP means the ISP assigns to your computer a fixed IP address until you unsubscribe from the service, close your account. You must check with your ISP (@home) to be sure that they provide fixed IP address before ...

Depending on where you downloaded from and where you uploaded to. But as you stated in your post you got 120kB/sec download (with a capital W which mean 120kBytes/sec) that is a T1 speed. As you uploading speed, 6kBytes/sec to a dial up modem is very good!

If you mean kB = KBytes then you are doing ...

Nate,
Until now, I have not seen any cable modem that has telnet feature. Plus according to the cable modem technology, this box does not need to be configured, at least by the user. Cable modem is a very "dumb" IP router, it only route IP packets and nothing else.

The cable modem Road Runner users ...

What you experience is a routing problem. When your cable modem is up, your Windows station try to reach your Exchange Server (with the private corporate IP I assume) via the cable modem router. This of course will get you to no where http://www.speedguide.net/ubb/frown.gif

To fix this all you ...

What you mentioned will work fine. Cable modem is just a "router" that only routes IP packets it won't route IPX or NetBIOS at all so no one can see your IPX shared files accept for computers within your LAN.

However to be on the safe side, I would always put a password on every share mount point ...