> Hmmm... what type of connection do you get? Is it a
 > 33.6? I've found the 33.6 connections to be unstable
 > and ridiculously slow. I get much faster transfers at
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I get 28.8 and lower, usually 21.6 and overall it works until it decides to 
drop carrier. I don't see why and my tweeking seems to help, but now instead 
of 1-2 min. online, I may last 5min.
 > Let us know what it reports as the reason.
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The ats86 reports 000, but then I have to reboot to get the system up and 
running so it may clear any status.
 > When you make a boot disk, what is it that you're
 > changing during the bootup?
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I run a bbs and leave alot of that out, plus any other setting that maybe 
used once in a while, so I only leave in what's absolutly needed for Windows 
and general system. The internet dialer is from TotalAccess provided by 
Earthlink and once that runs, I switch to Netscape 3.0. My SupraFAX288 has 
always worked in any other comm. pgm. but seems to fail under NS3.0. I 
beginning to wonder if all those inet graphics is too much for the modem. I'm 
about to reach for Earthlink's tech support and will give it a whirl, but I'm 
not going to fiddle forever, if they can't come up with a solution, I'll drop 
them. I really don't think the Supra is at fault but it's that or the inet 
s/w. poop -_-_-Bill
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