Remember back on April 3, I posted a message (RE: Cellular phones and the internet) about the Motorola analog equipment I was using to connect to the Internet via cell phone from the boat? I got to thinking about the Motorola adapter box and the fact that it presents a dial tone to the computer modem and uses the same kind of connector your home phones use. I wondered if MAYBE, I could connect a regular house-type phone to that port and use it just like a regular phone -- run extensions throughout the boat so they could all use the cell phone when we're away from our slip (and could even be switched over to a land line, if desired, when we're at the slip). I just tried it out AND IT WORKS! If the cell phone rings, you just pick up an extension and talk away. Hang it up normally when you finish. The only difference is that when you dial the number on the extension, you have to "flash" the hook switch briefly to have the cell phone send the number out to the cell system. Otherwise, it's JUST like the phones at home. I think I'll even put an extension in the engine room so I won't have to bust my noggin getting to the phone when I'm twisted up behind the genset and up to my armpits in diesel fuel or something. Way cool! I'll just paralle the computer with the extensions. My guess that this arrangement will also let the computer answer an incoming fax call -- AND maybe even use an answering machine on the cell phone, since the ringer works through that port as well. REALLY way cool! - Bryant