Maurice Kinal wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 RJT> and get another hub -- the current one has 16 ports,  but the 
 RJT> newer ones don't seem to go that high for some reason.

 MK> Shouldn't need even 16.

Didn't say anything about _needing_ that many,  but I've got lights 3, 4,
and 6 on right now, 1 is this machine which doesn't turn its light on
unless I've got the packet driver loaded,  and I have some thoughts about
some other devices.

 MK> I couldn't fit 16 in here.

They wouldn't all be in here.  :-) 

 MK> At any given moment I usually have two going, one as the 
 MK> firewall/router, and the other as my workstation. 

Add one "server" to the mix here.

 MK> Currently I am playing with the idea of audio/visual streaming on 
 MK> the wireless connection so I put a small box with three network 
 MK> interfaces (all Intel Pro's) and a VIA C3 800MHz processor as the 
 MK> firewall/router.  Basically all it needs now is for me to get off 
 MK> my * and get streaming working from there.

I've considered that too,  locally from room to room.  Put a low-profile
box on the top of the tv and rig it to work from a remote rather than a
keyboard, drive it into the tv rather than a monitor.  Might be do-able.

Fun stuff we can do with these machines,  eh?  :-)

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