I'll try this again. The alt.playstation group seems dead. A guy I work with has a Playstation 2 for his kid and he in turn has tried to connect it to a remote player using a dialup modem. Too slow, but apparently it worked. Dad pops for a cable modem. He wants to know if the Playstation2 can be run directly into the cable modem, bypassing the computer. Wants to get the kid out of his bedroom, and doesn't want to put another computer in the kid's bedroom. I can't help much because I have never seen a Playstation, but maybe someone here has? I'm thinking that finding a specific ip address out there is too complex without a computer to interface, but then what do I know?