You must have an older Asante transceiver. The more recent ones have the cable integrated into the transceiver box, so that there is no seperate dongle. For those having trouble following, Apple used an odd connector (the mini-centronics referred to above) for their AUI port and called it an AAUI port. It makes a certain amount of sense as the AAUI is a more compact connector which works nicely for laptops and saves space on the computer backplane. Also, Apple is (was) already using DB15 for their video port. Various companies made transceivers for the AAUI port, including Asante. Asante's older transceivers have an AAUI to RJ45 plug dongle. The RJ45 end of the dongle plugs into the transceiver box which may be for thicknet, thinnet or UTP (they also made some combo boxes with UTP and thinnet in the same box). Anyway, you'll (Don will) want to find an actual UTP transceiver. They're cheap, but not as thick on the ground as they once were. Apple gave up on the AAUI with the first PCI Macs (well, they started including UTP built-in next to the AAUI, but who used the AAUI after that?) so the only folks still using the AAUI transceivers are running NuBus machines, and there aren't that many of us left. If you have a local Goodwill Computer Works store, you may find an assortment of AAUI transceivers in a bin for $3 - $5 unless they've lost their minds for Ebay pricing. <digression> I saw several HP 600N ethernet cards (successor to the MIO cards for LaserJet printers) at the San Antonio Computer Works store priced over $50. They say they're pricing them using Ebay pricing. However, when I bought one on Ebay, I found that they generally ended for about $20 (which was still more than I was willing to pay). There were some sellers using fixed price sales at ~$50, but there's no saying anyone ever bought from them. For some of their pricing, Goodwill has recently lost their institutional mind. </digression> Jeff Walther