Not only did you prove me wrong, i just proved my self wrong. I got the same performance. Of course this is a BBS where I download one file at a time, I'm not sure about the Internet (which i dont have). I wonder if 56K (X2 or FLEX) would get a performance hit on only a 2 wire line or a boot on a 4. --Patrick Black On Sun, 19 Jul 1998 22:05:16 -0700 Mark Rode <[log in to unmask]> writes: >The only reason you would need 4 wires in a phone cable is if you have >two >lines. Each line requires two separate wires. Two, four or six wires >within >the cable will have no effect on your modems performance. >Mark _____________________________________________________________________ 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]