ive noticed a weird "coincidence" with my dialup connection and windows 2000 that seems to happen after a couple days uptime. right now im at about 3 1/2 days, and my connection's IDENT no longer wants to work (like when connecting to irc, it never even shows getting or sending an ident reply). this happened the last time i rebooted after about 5 days. as soon as i rebooted ident worked perfectly fine again. also my connection just seems to get crappier overall the longer my computer is up without a reboot. is this a modem issue or a win2k thing or what? I'm using the right oem drivers for my USR model 0727 pci modem, but i dont know what else i could do .. suggestions?