3) i actually prefer to call wvdial (or, pppd, i used to do that long ago,
when i didn't know about wvdial yet) from /etc/crontab. what i do is,
i have a script that does something like:
#!/bin/bash
ps auxw | grep wvdial | grep -v grep
if [ $? != 0 ]
then
wvdial
Just clarifying... I didn't know wvdial runs pppd DETACHED.
I changed your script so that it detects if PPPD (not wvdial) is running, and if not, it runs WVDIAL (not pppd).
I tried killing pppd and running wvdial, and I've solved the slow download problem. At first I thought it was the modem init string, or the "stupid mode" setting, but when I didn't know how to load WVDIAL in the background (detached), I switched back to loading pppd instead of wvdial. Then the downloads went slow again. So I just refrained from loading pppd at startup, and let cron do the script every 3 minutes.
And now I'm a happy camper.
Thanks a lot to all those who tried to help! Especiall to those who helped without groaning. hehehehe...
Jose Victor A. Martin, Jr.
Network Admin
SFELAPCO, Inc.
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