thanx for your advice but i am getting more and more confused now . i have a 56k modem in europe - does that make any difference now?

and i was wondering whether XoloX is talking about 20k when it asks to set the modem speed during the very first installation of the software, or is it talking about 2.0k? and the max speed for example too. is it 10 or 1.0?

i do have the feeling and experience that my modem can download up to 5 something but in XoloX it never goes above 2,5 kbps. i have tried to change the max speed while downloading but it seemed it got even slower. but don't worry, i will experiment a bit more and watch more closely.

i would like to install from anew some time though if this doesn't change. i have done before but my information was apparently kept and this question about the modem speed never came up again. is there anything i can do about that? just in case ...