I recently installed Suse linux 5.2 ( my first linux experience) and thanks to the help of many of the messages to this group I was able to get PPP working. The problem is that it is my connection is too slow, when I ping my ISP I get pings of around 400ms! when I ping from the same computer from NT ( I'm writing this from work)I get pings of around 120ms . The odd thing is however if I first use minicom , disconnect then connect (either by chat script or kppp) the connection is much improved with pings at abut 170-190ms, still not as good as my NT but at least something to work with. I suppose I could do it that way forever, but I think you would agree that that's not very elegant. My modem is a USR X2 internal , not setup as plug & play (com2 irq3). So far I've tried playing with initialization strings, that helps a tiny bit but not enough. Obviously minicom is initializing some thing that I am overlooking. I've spent a lot of time trying to figure this out but as a Linux newbie , I'm having a hard enough time with just the basics. Kristian Farren kf@wa.net -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e