So, around 8 or 9 o'clock at night AT&T finally stopped interfering with me and the Internet was visible and now, with the D-Link gateway, overall Internet throughput seems faster.

Moreover, with the D-Link DSL-520B ADSL2+ DSL Gateway (on which I bestow a rating of 5 out of 5) I can reserve IP addresses and forward ports to IP addresses and can now get on with what I started to do last week, which we'll look at next week.

Really, do you ever marvel at how anything gets done with computers?

Gibbs is full of wonder in Ventura, Calif. Your surprises to gearhead@gibbs.com.

in Network World's LAN & WAN section.