a good plumber is hard to find.............lol sylvia. Well, this is one of those situations where I tried to answer quickly and didn't choose my words correctly. In some documentation, bandwidth is used in place of power, probably because the computer supplies the power along with the bandwidth -- and when you exceed the designed amount of power, your equipment fails (as you said too). I think you and I are in violent agreement <chuckle> The situation here is I actually use four ports, the computer has only two ports. My logic says the computer will not deliver enough "power" to run the four pieces of equipment. The hub has a power supply, but I question if it's working because when I plug it in to the hub, the red light comes on, not the green light. One way to check this would be to put a volt meter across the tip of the connector for the power supply and see if it's delivering what it is supposed to. That's a project for tonight as my mother's refrigerator ice maker broke and flooded her kitchen.........now I'm a plumber, not an electrician <G> Regards from the "Keyboard Cowboy", Master NetLord ,,,,, Ô¿Ô¬ Cincinnati, Ohio Scottsdale, Arizona «::::»¤«::::»¤¤«::::»¤«::::» Monday 07/15/2002 2:31:35 PM 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/