I can telnet to some and others no because of security policies by the different companies. Having to haul two laptops around to different properties would be cumbersome and not practical. I just think Apple ought to put the serial port back. Eric. on 1/19/03 5:04, Robert Nicholson at robert at elastica.com wrote: > This won't happen. There's simply not enough people who needed to > cripple the formfactor > of the machine with one of those. It's like Floppy drives. Can you not > telnet into a router via > ethernet? Like you used to be able to do with the Ascend ISDN routers. >