Brian Hechinger wrote: Is it just me or does the whole conversion of serial to modem to pots to voip back and forth there seem a little excessive? I thought people wanted to experience the lights blinking on their DF03 sitting next to their VT100.... So I had an idea. What about a software modem that natively talks VoIP. How about an open source codec that knows how to speak Bell 103/212/v.22/etc and then just sends the actual data over IP to its counterpart on the other end? Bob