I got my copy yesterday and immediately set up network rendering between my host PII 450, my SO's Celeron 300, and my P233 laptop. I took an image that I've been working on, turned up the Premium Render settings (glutton for punishement that I am) for soft shadows, blurred transparency, etc. and let it rip. First, it was really really easy to set up. All I did was install the Bryce Lightning renderer on the two client machines. Upon running them the told me their IP address and say waiting. Then I ran the host, set up to network render (render animation - one frame, with tiling on). The host found the clients with no trouble and they immediately started talking. The host started rendering while the clients were still receiving data. No problem. I started the render last night at about 10 PM - it ended this morning, I'm guess at somewhere between 8 - 8:30 AM -- AFTER I had to go to work (grrr....) So, assuming it worked - it renders to disk, not screen - and assuming I like how it looks, I'm very impressed, cause it took about 8 hours to render that image without all the fancy bells and whistles of Premium Rendering. Now, from watching the rendering going on I really really wish there was a better sense of the progress of the render. While you can see what tile number the clients are currently rendering and their % complete, you can only see what the % complete of the host's task is, not what tile its on, so you kinda have to guess where in the process things are. I'd also like more information like average rendering time per tile per machine, and so on, but I'm weird that way. :-) TomD