Randy

My house in New Zealand has cat 5 cabling and UPS plugs in every room- in fact we usually have 5 admin or techo staff downstairs. The house has a wireless "internet connection" believe it or not, there is a dish on the roof aimed at an antenna 12 miles away.

I'm currently in Indiana using a wireless router and cable connection. So e-mails go wireless from my pc to the router to the cable to the internet to the southern cross cable to the antenna then wirelessly again to our router and finally to the mail server in my basement!

I completely agree with you re speed, with my wife and I both working we experience not a jot of difference- maybe slightly slower to tunnel to the e-mail server, fair enough with the distances and extra hops involved.

Re the house: next time I'll use a non-standard power point for the UPS. E.g. a US socket standard in NZ and a NZ socket standard in the US. Cleaning ladies with vacuum cleaners seem to be drawn irresistably to the UPS plugs even though they are a different colour with "PC ONLY" emblazoned on them. After a few times the shriek of stressed UPS boxes starts to really irritate.

Regards

JR