HI Guy's another update owner was able to go back to class and got windows 3.1 up and running a cable connection I love this crazy stuff cable was not even around or even thought of back then!

yea, was using the wrong os :P Windows for Workgroups (WFW) v3.11 is the only way to go about this unless you use a 3rd party winsock like mentioned above.

'Well glad you got it sorted -- and we all learned something