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I've seen two reviews of voice modems, and they currently both favour the US Robotics Sportster Vi series. However, I think that they tended to view these as the best of a not brilliantly wonderful bunch. I get the impression that these sort of cheap gizmos are still rather temperamental - certainly the one I recently met ( a USR brand one) was. The suggestion is that the technology has a little way to go before it matures. They come with special software which manages the voice/fax/data switching and stores incoming voice-mail on your PC hard disk as sound files. You can play these back via the speaker in the modem, or sometimes via your PC soundcard. The USR software supports automatic fax-back also. The software, needless to say, will not work without a voice/fax/data compatible modem. I also know that the Vi chip, as used in the USR modem, has some compatability problems when connecting to other systems. It won't, for example, reliably connect to NatWest's Bankline service. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr Jeremy Rogers MRCGP DRCOG DFFP MBChB Clinical Research Fellow Medical Informatics Group Department of Computer Science Manchester University, Oxford Road Manchester, United Kingdom M13 9PL (+44) 161 275 6145 voice (+44) 161 275 6932 fax [log in to unmask] URL http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/mig/people/jeremy.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%