Guess you could call the wall outlets remote jacks. If none of the computers would work then it would be the wiring but the older ones are the only ones that do. Very strange. On Saturday, March 15, 2003, at 02:38 PM, Roger Snyder wrote: > On 3/15/03 17:19, "Dick Grable" wrote: > >> We recently had our house wired for ethernet but there is some >> strangeness going on. My old LC 575 and a 6100 work fine but my TiBook >> 500 and my son-in-laws Win98 won't work unless plugged into the >> router. > > My question is as opposed to what? A remote jack? A hub?