Thanks guys. Luckily I am in the situation where my friend owns the ISP, (though he rents the modem banks). I'm now looking at it with them and will post what I find out.
The modem is the only thing on that phone line in the house, and I'm not convinced it isn't a linux software thing, but I don't have any more to add at this point. Thanks for the suggestions! -Jonathan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG public key available from http://www.jamdata.net/~jjlupa/gpg.asc
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