I disagree with Zach, the audio link should default to on, with an option to turn it off. The preferences of the existing players are not relevant. I also think that 8 players on a single audio link is not at all impractical, given the expected conversation latency. I'm regularly on conference calls with that number of people, and we all learn rapidly to do random back-off, just like in real life. -- James Cameron mailto:quozl at us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/