>I've been using a wave sp33k6 - I won't be getting another Wave.

ive got a wave56, its great :)

>My IAP reckons USR roadsters work with his Netcom smartmodems, but he's 
>also about to upgrade to 56k so who knows how good THAT advice is?

im still using flex and really cant see any incentive not to, the usr ones
are xr2/v90?

>I think the problem with the Wave is it's sensitive to noise, with the 
>result it drops connexions regularly.

well cant say for certain [my line must not be noisy, i get 50k+ connects
and pretty decent connection times] but really as far as i can tell, once
you get line noise then you are better off just choking the modem back and
that would pretty much apply to any of them.

Jamie
