> I assume he's already got Call Waiting disabled?
He doesn't have it.
 > I know you had the phone company shake down your phone
 > lines years ago.  It
It's his lines, not mine. He lives over in Tempe, AZ.
 > sounds to me like there may be some loose connections
 > or noise interference either inside the house or on
 > the phone line.
That could be.
 > I'd suggest turning off the modem's error correction
 > and try connecting to a BBS and trying a couple of
 > downloads.  Without the error correction, it's much
 > easier to see how much noise is getting in the way.
I did a lot of BBSing and a couple of downloads when I was there. (I had to 
get a new copy of Juno off the web while there, as his and mine were both 
old. It took 4 tries to get on the web without getting dumped, but once I 
started the download, I got my files.) Mom gets a Silver Express mailbag 
periodically from a local BBS and never has a problem.
 > If several BBS's seem to work okay, then it may be the
 > phone lines AOL is using there.
Another idea....
                                 -donna
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