Sounds like a good way to clog up a network lol. No what I ment was that I was building an object to translate the messages that are sent and received and an object to keep user info and access priority. For example a msg consisting of 47563933 would be sent to a new object where that info would be stored and/or cause the object to perform some action. Right now it uses no objects it just translates the msg as it comes in. The number of if then and case select statements in one function or procedure are getting out of hand. New question. I am thinking of having it scan IP address looking for another computer with the software on it that will answer back. Right now I use a static IP on the server machine and all the clients log in there first.