My uncle gave me a few surplus networking devices including a cicso access-point and a box with Server 2008 Datacenter running on it a month ago. His business was upgrading to newer hardware. Now its been sitting in my room for weeks, but I've decided that it would make a great file server. The only problem is that the 802.11g usb adapter is too far away from my home network router, so it only connects at about 18Mbps most of the time and I only get transfer speeds of about 400-700KBps (Even with a high over-head, I'd hope for at least 1-2MBps). So here's what I want to do to hopefully make everything faster, and learn some networking skills for my A+ class i have coming up this semester. I'm hoping to setup the Server as a Router with internet access from the WLAN. I don't want computers connected to the server to see computers connected to the home network (that the WLAN is connected to), but I guess this can be done by setting up a different subnet. I also want to be able to port forward some ranges to specific ips (I know how to set address bindings in DHCP server) I'm going touse the Access-point as the means that computers connect which is setup as a NAT forwarder. And my main goal is to get all connections in this to become "identified" in the network and sharing center so that I can Name the connection and define them as Private to allow all file sharing. I already know how to configure the Cisco router, as I've played around with it before. I've also explored Server 2008 and I've tried to setup the DHCP, DNS, and Network Policy Roles, but I only have experience with home OSs like XP and Vista. I'm not looking for a hand-holding, but just some general ideas at how to set this up. I actually know what I'm doing when it come to Windows OS's, just this is a whole new relm for me, so if anyone can help me I would really appreciate it. Edit: One other thing, the box has two 100Mbps Ethernet NIC's, one that i've connected to teh access point, and the other I leave loose so that I can direct connect my laptop for large file transfers. I want to configure that as ANOTHER seperate network (again a different subnet?) -ben