---That's ok for you. But stuff like NAT, routers, broadband and ethernet is waaaaay over my head. I don't know much about that stuff. Maybe my problem is the way i connect. I don't know whether I have PPP, TCP, or remote access. i just clicked a bunch of stuff one day and here I am. I've been very confused about setting up PPP. It's really a foreign language to me.
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