Re: As much as I hate to have to ask.....

this seems to be a chronic problem with mac modems (along with low connection speeds); apple has hemmed and hawed greatly over it's ghost-in-the-machine like nature (see tech article 24803 at apple for an example of a document continually updated over 2 years trying to explain and impotently solve the issue). i haven't ever seen a concrete solution to this problem.



(this is also why i travel with my vaio laptop and powerbook at the same time - using the vaio to connect to my isp and act as a firewall/router for my powerbook; my powerbook won't hold a dial-up connection for more than 15 minutes, whereas the vaio running win 2k holds it more than 8 hours.)



:-( sorry



loki