:: When pressed for an explanation the person in question could :: only tell me :: that "It was a method for making 8 home lines go over a single normal :: line". They said they couldn't give me a better explanation :: and didn't :: want to hand me to someone who could. And that was pretty much that. They had those in Albany as well... not "party lines" but something akin to "multiplexed lines". Anyway, the guy who runs the Internet café on Waiheke (nice food there, btw) says there's only a single coax cable connecting the island to the mainland. Says he's lucky to get 33.6Kbps, and when the banks offload their data (EFTPOS etc), the connection just croaks. -- Juha --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog