>Close enough - the number I quoted was five years ago, on W98 p2p networks.

It goes up exponentially, but it isn't a show stopper at first...
>

>Just to satisfy my curiosity - does NetBEUI still have each card shout "I'm here" to everybody at regular intervals?
I guess so - it is shoved on the back burner nowadays by MS.
But it sure is nice to have in a non-DHCP environment:
I hated moving with the laptop from one workplace
to the next where NetBEUI was frowned on <g>

rgds

thomas