All, You may have noticed a certain lack of ping activity on sionnsar's ping lists in the past week. The good news (depending upon how you look at it *\;-) is that sionnsar is back from his week of nearly no Internet access at all. (Busy most of the time, but when I had time available in the evenings, the only way to get there was to attach a USB cable to the cellphone, pin the cellphone to the drapes to get just 1 bar of signal, and even then uplink rates felt like 1200 baud -- with copious interruptions.)...