Leographix (J) wrote:

"Consider to get yourself a 10 MBps hub (no switch and not faster than 10 MBps)!"

I have one. An old Lynksys 5 port hub.

"On most adapter cases a little bar code sticker showed a combination of letters and numbers that represented the MAC adress."

Ultimately my router is an Apple Airport Extreme. On the back of the Mini EN/SC are two identifiers: 1) "FCC ID" 2) a product serial number/barcode. Neither of the two identifiers matches what the Airport Extreme expects as a MAC address. In each case there are not enough characters to fill the expected MAC address.

"The other one - but here I might be wrong! - was to open the AppleTalk zones panel. The combinations of letters and numbers there was identical with the MAC adress."

I am unsuccessful in getting any information from Appletalk. When cliking the already active 'Ethernet Alternative' tab under the networking control panel I am greeted by something like 'you cannot select a network zone because no router is available.'

Interesting for me would be to know what operating system and extensions you are using to connect your pb180.

I have tested this system on three physical networks with no avail.

Interestingly I do see network activity traveling through the 10 Base-T hub when pinging 192.168.1.1 from 192.168.1.100 (pb145) and when I ping the pb145 from .200 or .199 (other computes on my network). LEDs light up, there are systemic 'collisions', but 0 pakets returned %100 packet loss.

So, I am not so certain that the answer is that simple.

I have also contacted Asanté with the question... maybe they can help.

Thanks though for your attention to the matter J. I do appreciate it.

Any other opinions?