Ok, so you need to get past something here. You *do* have a router (really just NAT, but don't worry about that now). Just because you don't have a little blue box sitting next to your comp w/ a linksys logo on it doesn't mean you don't have one. You have an internal IP that your server uses and that you connect to. This is on your side of the routing. Then people come in off the net and connect via your static IP. Thats the external side. I'm assuming that people are unable to connect to your box (though you still haven't said so) but you can. Is that correct?