> > Because of this incident I am trying to figure out how to continue to have a > functioning network even when my WAN connection dies as I need my internal > lan to 'work'. > >From day one, circa 2002-3, I had a router right after the DSL modem's LAN. This, because I knew that Qwest would very happily log into my DSL model and, at the very least, "fix" things now and then. I laugh thinking about having gone the more naive way!