Sorry if I was unclear. The set up is two standard NICs in the computer, with the cable modem connected to one, and a cat5 cable connected to the other, leading the network adapter on the PS2. I will foward on your advise thus far.

nah, I caught that part of it. that's not as easy as you may think. You can't just put two nics int he computer and expect it to forward the network connection. You'd have to set up internet connection sharing or something on the PC, which Microsoft never managed to actually get right. ie, it's unreliable. It's better just to attach your ps2 directly to the cable modem/router/switch. Which can be difficult if you're connecting right to the cable modem from the pc and it only has one port.

Which brings up the question of security...without a router buffering you from the cable modem, your pc is wide open to the internet. Any kind of network-vulnerable service/application/whatever is totally exposed. Behind NAT, you're only opening up holes selectively and (supposedly) only for specific packet streams.

But anyway....bleh...my initial advice still holds. :p

Hmm... I have an wired router I have give him. Good points.