Hmmm, I've done specific tests on each of DSL and cable, & for more than one cable provider, & in different states, and when setting up a Wireless LAN which was tied directly into a big >> T1 pipe (a T3 or the big optical??, I forget now), and when myself having a numerical IP similarly tied directly into the big pipe, and I have found that showing a DNS server in my iBook's Network SysPrefs could be the only difference between connecting by url vs only by specifying numerical IP address. Also theory seems to say this is how things are. So I'm not sure what is meant by "the ones that will count" here. On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Richard McKay wrote: . . . > Also worth mentioning is that regardless of what DNS servers are showing in > the system prefs. the ones that will count are those listed at the end of > the chain going out of the house...i.e. Router information settings? It > could also be due to other settings for this such as the MTU number, etc... . . .