rpgoldman at real-time.com writes: > Ouch. For two desktops + an access point, pulling wire is starting to > look competitive. Even at electrician's rates $700 or so buys a > reasonable amount of wire-pulling. > > Maybe I'm not doing the right thing --- I'm just trying to avoid > pulling wire through two stories of lath and plaster. I don't really > need roaming wireless. Is there a more economical way to avoid > pulling wire? Or am I somehow reading these product sheets wrong? Having put around 1500' of CAT5 and some phone cable into my 1916 (I think it is) duplex, mostly lath and plaster -- I think you're onto something. In 1995, though, I didn't have either a wireless option or good multi-line multi-handset wireless phone options. I've seen phone-line network products and power-line network products that might well be another alternative, but I'm not actually sure they're much cheaper than the wireless you're looking at. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info