Hi Zentara, one thing I found helped with download speed, was to tweak the /etc/ppp/options file. I've my mru @ 250 & the mtu @ 1500. Secondly, if you read over your documentation that came with your modem, you may find adding the odd instruction to your initialization string will get it to work harder for it's living, as it were. My modem is a Dynalink 28.8 & I regularly get 30 bps, but it varies from stall to 60 bps. Using hardware flow-control & instructing the modem to negotiate up the speed, with 0.000000E+002, for a Rockwell V34 chip. My full string is ModemIniString=AT&F&C1&D2&K3L0 Hope this helps. Geek Greek :-) -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>