Why must we make life harder for ourselves? If five companies can make a widget that works with five other companies' products, like a DVD player from Sony on a Zenith TV, why can't home networking vendors figure out that they'd make life easier for a whole bunch of people if they'd stick to a constant internal network numbering scheme? Across vendors, they're usually in the same major net, but this is really un Why must we make life harder for ourselves? If five companies can make a widget that works with five other companies’ products, like a DVD player from Sony on a Zenith TV, why can’t home networking vendors figure out that they’d make life easier for a whole bunch of people if they’d stick to a constant internal network numbering scheme? Across vendors, they’re usually in the same major net, but this is really unfortunate. I bet there are 10,000 people in the US right now who are trying to VPN to their office and print to the printer plugged into their home broadband router/printservers and not having any luck since a portion of the tunnel and their home net are both 192.168.1.0/24. Note: This number will grow.