Sometime Today, Kinjal Sonpal assembled some asciibets to say:
one of my friends believe. If someone on the list can confirm this, it'd be really good as far as the concepts of these things
use minicom to connect to your ISP and check manually what is happening.
One easy soln. will be to slow down the speed at which pppd initially connects to the ISP, which we generally set to 57600.
That's the modem data transfer speed (Physical Layer), not the pppd connection speed (Data Link Layer). They are different. If you connect manually, you'll see what is happening.