:: shag-carpet). Ooo-errr. Is that the stuff you put under your etchings then? ;-) :: I have executed this cabling solution in a number of situations with :: satisfactory results. I bet. :: A tip: depending on the size of you LAN and layout of your :: house, it may :: be handy to locate the hub or switch in a central place, I :: reccomend under :: the couch. Might that not be err... a somewhat vulnerable position? Also, you'll miss out on those blinking LEDs. You can't have a network installation without those. Anyway, this is how a real pro (yep, that's me!) would do it: you get your Cat-5 ready and then, get into the ceiling! Brilliant eh? Tends to work the best on old vullahs, where you can crawl around, breathing in the remnants of some extremely hirsute sheep (or glass wool), and drop the cable through the ventilation shafts or the holes for the chandeliers-wotsits. Honest, it looks really neat and tidy -- much nicer than sticky tape all over the place. Watch out you don't put a foot wrong though, and step through the ceiling. Lots of cable-laying novices perish every year that way. -- Juha --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog