Why this was important to me! I have four adult children (reason for the router) and live in Titusville, PA (near Erie). I have two daughters and their families in Boston that we visit regularly (reason for my laptop). Last spring, I thought it would be great to be able to "see" this desktop from any location with TeamViewer. So I had everything set up and working (I thought) and tested it from my son's house in Olean, NY, about 90 miles from here. That failure led to months of trying to fix this thing. I'd mess with it for a day then not get into it for weeks, maybe months. I'd tried all the tricks .128, TamperData (a Firefox extension that can capture and alter java input) but the WRT54GS was to smart! Last week we were in Boston and I was checking the temp in my house via a web cam. With a little freeware app called Wake Up From Stand-By I can schedule the desktop to come out of hibernation and with TViewer put it back in hibernation. This worked until we had a power bleep (UPS is next investment) and for four days had no idea whether the house was OK or not. I'd been reluctant to try the firmware upgrades but became interested again from this thread and also, like Gillbot, was not interested in getting into PuTTY and SSH. As you probably noticed from your searches, this is really a huge (in the context of folks trying it, not sure how many would actually be into it) problem with failure reported across dozens of forums. That was my point, and in jest, about pinning it on the search engines. Anyway, sorry for the life story and thank you again!