[TomGuy]

If your machines are on the same network, they may not be affected by Zone Alarm. All your machines would be behind the firewall. Transferring between machines wouldn't be much different than transferring between hard drives, floppy drives, etc.

Unless each machine is running Zone Alarm, you shouldn't have a problem transferring files from machine to machine on the same network.

[edchambers]

They all have Zone Alarm two are hardwired into the router which is a combination wireless/LAN the other one is on a wireless adapter.After Christmas I will have two more on wireless.I suppose if I set one up as a "residential gateway" I could just run a firewall on that one but then it would have to be on all the time for the other ones to connect right? If I had a hardware firewall could I just put that between the router and the cable modem and drop the software firewalls?How secure is that? I had a router before that supposedly had a built in firewall but aside from blocking a few pop-ups it didn't seem to do much.If it sounds like I don't know what I'm talking about, I don't, I'm a learn as you go kind of guy.