mucho gracious Tycus & Maddox...it really does boost a hardwired DSL @ 10mbs to something close to my wi-fi @ 50mbs;had to manually edit the registry as the notepad thing didn't take but Maddox's roadmap was pretty clear to simply run "regedit" then open the appropriate reg key, add the new subfolder & change the value to Maddox's...excellent work on this heads up dudes