You probably did, which means either your sound card settings are wrong, which is probably unlikely, or you are having the age old firewall problems. I suspect the later. If it is the firewall problem you will need to open the appropriate udp ports on your firewall and direct the packets for those ports to the machine you are running speak freely on. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061