To all: Avoid NEwcom modems like the plague! 90% are returned to the store I work at and you know buying a $49.00 modem with a $30 rebate is kind of fishy. And as for 56K newcom modems for $79.00 with a $30.00 rebate, well if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Here is the kicker about Newcom Cd-ROMS. I work at a retail store and the newcoms we installed for people have the word REWRITEable on them. Can you you say refurbished? Maybe, here is a point in case. A customer returns a Newcom, the attending clerk opens the box and checks the contents while the customer waits. The CD-ROM says "ACER" on it. Did he replace it? Well, that is what we thought, but here is the kick in the face you hate to have to find out. We call a neighboring store about 30 miles away and ask them if they have an unopened NEWCOM CD-ROM that was shipped to them. They say yes, and we ask them to open it. It has a "Toshiba" name. We lost our bet about the customer replacing his old drive with the NEWcom, plus two questions pop into my mind. Are they really refurbished CD-ROMS within a NEWCOM box? Or do they just buy surplus parts from other manufacturers and use them. I really, really think it is the first option. By the way, sometimes the drivers they put on their driver disks don't match the CD-ROMs they come with. For example, a Wearnes CD-ROM had a driver disk with no driver for it. A friend of mine had to go on the 'net to get it. Now I know why the $79.00 dollar drives are coming with $30 dollar rebates. You get what you pay for! Derek _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]