\_ SMTP quoth Lisa Winkler on 1/21/2002 16:29 as having spake thusly: \_ \_ According to the cox guy I talked to, in 99% of cases you will end \_ up keeping the same ip you had on @home. So there is not \_ necessarily anything wrong. Don't know about the DHCP lease length \_ though... heh. Also, the ip in question is still having low ports filtered. I called to ask cox about this, and level 1 bounced me to level 2 ^H^H^H^H^H^H hold and disconnect. I'll try again tomorrow if Mesa decides it can have consistent power. FWIW, and for posterity (thank you google), the conext ups I have cheap (cnb900) is apparently running the same serial I/O as an APC BackUPS. Now, to convince both ends of the cable to listen to each other. David