I solved my modem problem yesterday by using pppconfig instead of the GUI one Ubuntu provides, I'm not sure whats wrong with it, but something is definatly broken. I'm not sure if ubuntu comes with pppconfig by default (I downloaded it and installed it before checking) if not I used the package from http://packages.debian.org/stable/base/pppconfig I then installed the package and used it, just as easy as the GUI to setup, and all you need to use are pon <name of connection> and poff <name> and all works wonderfully :) Hope that works, Dean

Message: 1 Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 23:20:43 +1200 From: Ivan Potgieter <tealsky(a)bigfoot.com> Subject: [wlug] ISO + Modem questions To: wlug <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Message-ID: <42CFB30B.5(a)bigfoot.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

Hi all,

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I realize that the speed test is not going to be overly accurate, but I'm not concerned with getting an accurate speed measurement. I just used this method to get a comparison. btw - I did the 500k test.

Does anyone have any ideas / suggestions ?

Thanks Ivan