On Jul 8, 7:40, James Rice wrote: I agree with that. And I agree with Christopher's observation that it's good in proptected buildings; we use it for that too. Much the same here. now. But shared with whom, doing what, at what range? sources. Not necessarily. You won't notice a problem if you use it to read your email, even sharing it with a few other users. When you start doing more serious stuff, the throughput, something like 1-10Mbps shared under optimum conditions for 11g, is very low compared to wired networks, eg 100Mbps switched per port on a Gigabit backbone (which is what most of the campus is). -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York