Kppp, wvdial & pppconfig

[Ray Burke]

Marc,

well I see your point, so I will keep using the wvdial, do you know a way or
app I can use that will ell me of the time and data exchange when on the net???

ray

> To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> From: gmane at auxbuss.com
> Subject: RE: Kppp, wvdial & pppconfig
> Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:33:14 +0200
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> Ray Burke said...
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> > Marc=2C
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> > I use a terminal window and typr
> > sudo wvdial and it then reads my hardware modem and connects
> > with 11500 kbps calling 019833788 my isp and shows conection=2C
> > I then when I want to disconnect type in cntrl c in the same terminal
> > window? =2Cso all I want is the same to do when I use kppp or ppp as dialup
> > to show time online and amount off data exchanged at the rate of 11500=2C
> > but when I use the kppp or ppp it only connects at 56kbps????
> 
> So why not use wvdial?
> 
> I used dial-up a lot longer than many in my country place and wvdial 
> consistently provided better speeds, so I understand why you want to use 
> it. kppp was consistently rubbish - forget it - and ppp was cool for 
> adsl modems when I was staying with folk.
> 
> If you are trying to make kppp behave as well as wvdial then I suspect 
> you are fighting a losing battle. Why? No idea. Don't care. Move on.
> 
> As an aside, in Jaunty, I have dumped Network <whatever> and the much 
> recommended alternative, neither do anything for me, but two lines in 
> /etc/network/interfaces works brilliantly. Don't believe that many of 
> the "improvements" really are such. They demonstrably are not.
> 
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Marc
> 
> 
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