I am not sure if you are asking me, or asking Chris. But if you are asking me, here it is. He has a sat service instead of the dial up modem. He also has a network hub. The sat modem is plugged into the hub. Occasionally, he is asked to unplug the power to the network and the sat modem. For us, that is simple. For him, it requires finding someone who has the time to come over to his house, and unplug those items for him. Then, while it is unplugged, the company does a series of "resets" (whatever those are!), and about two minutes later he is told plug everything back in within the next 30 seconds. At that speed, he just can't accomplish that. So I was trying to help out. I thought if he could cut power to those items without bending over or getting under the desk, that would be the same as unplugging it and he would have to feel bad about calling several people until he finds someone who can come over at that time. Robert At 07:41 PM 9/7/2003 -0400, you wrote: >In a message dated 9/7/03 5:33:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time, >christrueman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: > > > i dont have a remote control but i have a surge protector that sits at eye > > level if you chose it to ..so i dont have to bend/stoop to unplug it :)) > > > > > >Why would you unplug it? To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk