which eircom one do you have is it the cayman 3300 or a diffrent one here is another suggestion If you pick up a netgear 4 way 10mb Ethernet hub available at Maplins(off heanry street), PC world (Livey vally or Blanchards town) or Harvey Normans(Swords) for about 20 and get two network cables use the network connection wizard in XP and set up a work group but no domain and make sure each pc has a different name allow it to auto detect settings make sure the same work group is set in 98 (right click network neighbourhood) reboot and see it they talk make sure any firewall allows document share over LAN (some times it take 2 or 3 reboots before the comps talk as windows is wacky like that) hope this helps