sWORDs, we are in agreement on the message size and EOL termination. Thanks for helping to confirm this and clarifying for me.

I'm still using read= with some string manipulations that, so far, has not failed. I implemeted a routine that sends one query at a time and only after one complete message has been returned/processed does it request the next. I have a series of 6 queries that load up a status page when jumped to. Then, it sits and listens for events and processes the messages one at a time as they come in.

Next, looking at the read+= implementation.

But first, can't figure out why the pre/pro now refuses to connect to Pandora and iRadio :( while is finds the PC music servers (local net) and Rhapsody (Internet) just fine...