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here's the question: what flavors of communications software are people using on their tp's and with what success? The reason I ask is I'm having lots of problems with my thinkpad in certain situations, and while I _think_ the problem is hardware related, it could very well be software. Here's the problem: essentially, characters are getting dropped at high speed. I've tried this with both my intel and with a direct connection, and I get the same results -- skewed display as a result of lost characters. I'm trying to connect to my university, and the exact same setup works perfectly on my desktop machine -- same hardware (direct connection), and same software (windows for workgroups 3.11 w/ Procomm Plus for Windows -- although the problem also manifests itself with the Windows terminal package, and a number of DOS-only comm packages). Has anyone seen this behavior under similar situations? Or am I the only one with (what appears to be) an iffy serial port? As I said, I'm leaning towards a hardware problem since it works on one machine, and doesn't on another; additionally since it fails so consistently under so many different communications packages. suggestions? - Andrew