Hello, Wayne, it is a great day here.

 WC> Nope, the problem I'm certain is in the limited NVRAM
 WC> Rockwell KFLEX modem protocols in the modem.

 Oh ! One can not blame Verizon to not honour KFlex. You might be the
 only one still using that old modem. Go to eBay and for +/- $ 5.00, you
 can get a v.92. I just got a PCMCIA v.90 for my daughter for $8.00.

 WC> previously perfectly good 56k units.

 Wayne, a KFlex is not a good modem.

 WC> There IS a case of one ISP I can think of which _did_
 WC> reassign modem COM ports and IRQ's and that's AOL.
 WC> I was sitting there when her kids logged onto AOL when up comes
 WC> a screen saying "updating system software."
 WC> I looked and sure enough AOL had swapped the modems IRQ and port
 WC> around again disabling her ability to use her communications
 WC> program to stay in touch with her university and associates.

 I just can not follow you in there as I am not that savy on this. Seems
 to me that if the kids could get out on the modem, she could also
 likewise on her programme, AOL does not own the Com ports !

 But, who am I to say ?

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