Asterisk is becoming familiar to me, like getting a few friends after moving to a different town, but I have had problems with modems from the getgo on this. Originally I wanted to do a voicemail system, but now I'm reading more and more that excites me to use this setup and or add to it. I started out with a USR 56k voice/internal that supports 4bit 8Khz voice playback only to find that I had to change a line in chan_modem_aopen.c from "AT#VBS=8" to "AT#VBS=4" in order for asterisk to load up using that channel. I then didn't have the console driver running because I didn't have a sound card installed, so I then installed OpenH323 to accept the VoIP or similar calls to try out this system. While everything seems to work over an IP, I then knew that the GSM files were not corrupt or unplayable, etc, etc.. So knew the modem was having a problem pushing the voice gsm files. So then I found another modem (A Conexant 56k voice, etc,etc) that supported the AT#VBS=8 command (for 8bit voice playback), returned the chan_modem_aopen.c back to "AT#VBS=8" and executed "asterisk -vvvc", called it and still no playback of "demo-congrats" or whatever the file is as listed in the extensions.conf. I know this system works, but what is the matter with GSM on ISA modems? Do I just have the wrong equipment? I know there are better pieces of equipment that are made for this, but what can I do for now with everyday voice modems? Should I try a motorola sm56 voice soft modem? What are the compliances I am not seeing that are necessary to play gsm over the voice modem? Thanks -- Jordan In a world without windows, who needs gates?