[X-Newbies] Re: hopping windows and buffaloed routers

[Steven Rogers]

On Aug 24, 2005, at 12:16 PM, Rodney A.Hoiseth wrote:

> I had posted the same question to the MacWizards list and one of  
> the Wizards made a suggestion that sounds right, but I haven't  
> followed up on it yet: He suggested it might be the scroll wheel on  
> my mouse, (even though he had no way of knowing I had a two-button  
> mouse with a scroll wheel...) The jumping is similar to the  
> movement produced by the mouse (a Kensington "Mouse in a Box").

That would be my guess.  Try a different mouse and see if it goes away.

> Somebody has pointed out that the firewall built into OS X is  
> probably all that's necessary anyway.

That would work, but its usually more convenient to just configure  
the router once rather than set up a software firewall for each  
individual computer. That way, you don't accidentally forget to  
configure a new computer, or have to worry about whether any software  
update might change some settings.

SR