There are a couple reasons for that. First, most people have no idea what the channel setting means, so they don't touch it. Second, the way things are laid out in the band is kind of screwy. There are only 3 non overlapping channels I believe, so some of the products I've seen will only let you select one of the three. Josh -- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. -Douglas Adams On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 23:49:17 +0100, Howard Winter wrote: > Interesting choice of channels, too - only six different > between them, with 6 and 11 being particularly popular. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.