Thanks for the advice. The network here really is just to allow file/printer sharing around the house. I have a small socks proxy running on one machine to allow using the dial-up web connection remotely, and have ambitions to set up an old 486 as a sort of intranet server but apart from that it's pretty basic.

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I'll tell ya, for someone with "only-coax" experience, you seem to know a lot about 10baseT. For instance, knowing that a crossover cable is quired when you connect two computers directly to each other: That's something most 10baseT newbies don't know about. I'm impressed.

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well, there's a good explanation for that
About this time last year, myself and a work colleague were working across the water for a few weeks, and as we both had company laptops, and managed to find an external CDROM (our company laptops aren't that impressive!) we brought a Starcraft CD and a crossover cable and whiled away a few hours in the hotel each evening playing games

Geoff
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Got one of the first Mark 2 empegs...