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Well, I started this thread, so I guess it is about time I summarized what I have learned. I have an A2000 with a GVP 3001 28 Mhz 030, 4 Meg of 32 bit ram, 2 meg of chip ram, and 2 meg of 16 bit ram. I recently bought a PPI 28.8 V.34 modem and now have a cslip account at a local Internet Service Provider (ISP). I was initially using the serial port to connect. With the standard serial.device I could connect periodically at 28.8. But during net transfers, especially ftp's and mosaic stuff, the Workbench became practically unusable. For instance, I might click on drawer icon and have to wait 20-30 seconds for all the icons to show up. There was not much difference between a DTE speed of 56K and 32K, both slowed down the machine terribly. Then I remembered that when I bought my Bomac Tower (from somebody here in the forum) I received a Multiface II card. I remember the seller telling me he was not sure it would work. I tried it one time in my A2000 and could not boot the system, so I just put it in a box. Well, I decided to dig it out and give in another try and low and behold it works. The docs where in German, (I lost the translation) but installation was fairly straight forward. I now have the Multiface serial rate set at 56K and its serial buffer at about 130K bytes. While the Workbench is still considerably slower during network transmissions, it is at least usable. For instance my SYSTEM: partitian, which has 32 drawer icons in it, takes about 6-7 seconds to open up, compared to 2 seconds when the duart.device (Multifaces serial device) is quiet. Not great, but usable. Also, before I switched to the Multiface, the interface of AP was extremely slow when connected at 14400 baud (19,200 DTE). Now AP's GUI runs quickly and smoothly. CONCLUSION: If you want to use a high speed modem with an A2000, you NEED a serial port card. ._ _ _ INTERNET: mshea@math.arizona.edu | | |ichael _>hea COMPUSERVE: 76665,3360