Just wanted to update my situation. I re-did the Bug Report test just now and it said 'true' this time. Not sure what that means but I guess it's better than 'false'. I tried downloading a file with lots of hits (192) at a speed of 'T3 or higher' and it got up to 50 KB/s transfer rate for a few seconds, but then spent most of the time b/n 0-5 KB/s. I spoke with the Mac tech guys and they say there should be no problem with the Express Station. They said I don't even need to do the whole port-forwarding business with it. The cable ISP guys have already told me the modem is fine. I've done (I think) everything to fine-tune L/W for speed, as per previous posts. So, to my mind, my firewall is off, the ports are open/forwarded/pushed, L/W is tuned as best can be - and it's still chugging along. Grrr! Not sure what else to do. Maybe it's just the nature of the beast. That sucks if that's the case. If I could get 50 KB/s reliably I would be happy, although a buddy with the same setup (except with adsl) gets in the 100s consistently. Lucky dog!

dijon