It just plane doesn't work - with one of these babies in your PC you'll be perfectly safe from all the evil things out on the net.I've tried two of these modems in two different Win2k PCs with the same result: it rarely succeeds at dialing the phone number and on the few times it does dial out, it only connects at about 300 baud. Then it hangs up after a few minutes.I have the latest drivers from Creative's web site, I've reinstalled the hardware and drivers N times. No luck.When I hook up my trusty US Robotics USB modem, everything works perfectly. Life is too short to screw around with a junk modem. Buy anything else.