>> 1. Very annoyingly, every time I turn airport on and then try to >> download mail the modem fires up and tries to dial out. > > How do you intend to pickup your mail without the modem dialing out? Jack - I was less than clear in my original post. My apologies. What I should have said was that the internal modem in my iBook fired up and tried to dial out each time I used the iBook, now on the ABS, to collect mail, etc. I was not referring to the ABS modem. I remembered the >automatically dial out< checkbox, went to it, unchecked it, and now that problem is fixed. Thanks for responding, bob