Hello Ralph and Charles,
Thanks for all the good input.

Once I have set up each XPorts IP and installed Redirector, I assign each XPort to it's own comm port in redirector and it's off to the races. Sounds simple enough. By opening say comm port 4 a connection is made to the XPort that was assigned to that port and so on. Wow

I don't plan on setting up XPort via PIC at this time as I am reading to learn as much as I can right now and don't see a need for this procedure right yet, that being said please proceed I'll read anything posted on the subject of XPort and it sounds interesting, thank you!

So at this point the only way I can communicate with the XPort is with a PC that has redirector installed, is this the only way?
I've seen a few things about JAVA but I don't really want to start learning Java at this time.
Can connections be made using a web browser so that one could send and receive data to and from the XPort from any pc in any location without redirector?

I see from both of your replies that you have hundreds of these devices running. Are they all on different networks? How many comm ports can be created with Redirector?

Thanks for the great feed back, I can't wait to get started!

William