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My experience with Mwave has not been as bad. I am currently running NT 4 (SP-3) on a 765D using the current Mwave NT driver (along with the NT power management stuff from IBM). Mwave also seems to work fine after suspend/resume and hibernate cycles under NT (that didn't work under the preload Win95 that came on the 765D and that was one of many reasons I went to NT on the 765D). I have never had a connection drop if it was established and this includes long distance calls when traveling such as from a hotel in Japan to my office in Tucson Arizona. Previously I used Mwave with a 755CX under OS/2 Warp (mostly current FixPacks and most current Mwave for OS/2 drivers). Always had good luck there also. I did have a few connection drops at first but that turned out to be when water got into my home phone line during construction of the house next door - hasn't happened since I convinced a US West repairperson to look at and then fix my connection at the box on the street (the repair people on the phone would NOT do anything). Since then I have no drops. I normally dial a PPP server at work (10 miles and at least two US Worst switches away). Server is a Sun running Solaris with the bundled PPP. I must say that I don't normally use sound except for when some error triggers something. Also each machine has maximum RAM (40 for the 755CX and 104 for the 765D). One other thing to note about Mwave as compared to two different PCMCIA modems: I have never gotten an overrun on the Mwave (that I know of) but get them transferring binary files under Warp and Sun Solaris x86 (on either notebook) using PCMCIA. In each case some protocol in the signal chain notes the problem and the packet(s) are retransmitted and the files are OK. It may happen under NT but I don't know if (or how) I would find out if there was a problem. Under Solaris, overruns are noted in the "console" window and under Warp the error shows up in the "Dial Other Internet Provider" app window. Just my $0.02. Good luck, Stuart At 06:27 PM 12/28/97 -0600, you wrote: >Michael, > If your starting from scratch see if you can get a hold of Win95 OSR2. I've had far less trouble with it compared to my Win3.11 upgrade to Win95 installation. > From the IBM website you'll need: >1. The MSCDEX CDROM driver to install Win95 from CD. You probably already have this. >2. Thinkpad features, 2 disks. >3. Mwave for Win95, 3 disks. Mwave for DOS if you might boot there. > > The MWAVE installation is less tedious with Win95. Although two irriating things haven't changed since you loaded it last. You still need to pull out the floppy drive to load the above IBM distributed stuff. But worse, Mwave 2.25 is still crap. Its finicky on phone line quality producing non-robust connection drops. The 33.6 speed (not 28.8) disables Mwave sound. The CPU drag when the Mwave modem is in use is very noticable. I think the Mwave modem was designed for use with a terminal or fax program, not a PPP stack and internet apps. I recommend a PCMCIA modem. I can only comment on Mwave performance in Win31 and 95. You also asked about OS/2. Anyone know if Mwave modems have this behavior in OS/2? Stuart F. Biggar Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona PO Box 210094, Tucson AZ 85721-0094 Stuart.Biggar@opt-sci.arizona.edu