Thanks for the info Beryl. It seems your experience differs slightly from mine...

I was never able to wake up an idle connection like you were able to do. Also, my external LCD always said "data call" when I was in "high data rate" mode. When I was in standard data mode, the LCD showed the connection time. I also tried using the 7135 as a modem for my laptop, and I was getting about 1-1.5 KBps, just like the 14.4 connection.

I even set the "Maximum speed" transfer betw PC and modem to 57600. But the modem I installed via "add new hardware" was a 14400 bps. Anyone else know whether this affects the speed?

Even so, there was one time I was browsing using EIS for about 20-30 minutes, and the battery drain was negligible (down to 93% from 100%)... that tells me that it was probably real packet data and not circuit-switched.

Beryl, was the LED green still green when you had the EN experience?