🚀 go-pugleaf

I am trying to find some decent software to access my systems at work.
That means running Windows in 386 enhanced mode.  I've got to 14,400 V.42bis
modems running on either end.
So far I've tried:

PC Commute - This is so slow, buggy and awful I won't comment any further.
PC-Tools,    Windows hangs up the modem, and would never come up completely.
~$75 upgrade.

Close-Up  - I really like the "reliable link" aspect of this software - you
 ($160)     don't see any line noise.  However, when I run windows in 386
	    mode, the modem hangs up on me.  Also, I've had windows hang
	    a couple of times.  The "editor" functions to edit a modem
	    setup string are the most bizarre I've seen in any software 
	    package - virtually unuseable.  Also, changing from a "direct
	    connection" to a modem causes the software to reboot the system.
	    In my opinion, this is fairly buggy software.  The documentation
	    regarding use with windows is geared to 3.0 (!) and although there
	    are pounds and pounds of it, most of it is repetitive and useless.

I think vendors of such programs should have to use them before they sell
them.  The current trend towards ever buggier software is totally 
unacceptable.

Is anybody using such a program over a telephone line (not on a network)
for serious work?  Or is the market just full of clownware?

-- 
Robert C. White, Jr.					rcw@whitestar.com