>What does it mean when you get "blacklisting" in the log as the modem is >trying to connect? Not sure about that one. >I have been frustrated/disappointed by the amount of time it takes for the >modem to connect - nearly three minutes - and never getting more then 26400 >connection speed. You may want to try putting something like this for the CONNECT line in your pppscript: CONNECT 56000/ARQ/V90/MNP/MNP5 This sets up the v.90 protocols. I was going around and around myself a while back and I finally figured it out by looking at the windows modem .inf files for my modem...sad I know but it was the only help I could find (see signature). anyway, hope that helps --- Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes. -William Shattner, Airplane II --- _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.