Configuring Dial-Up preferences
Dial-Up preferences describe how Dial-Up appears and behaves on your desktop. The PPP daemon (pppd) stops trying to make a connection after a specified amount of time, if it encounters a busy signal. You can set the amount of time pppd waits for information to be transmitted before timing out and becoming idle. You can set Dial-Up to redial if the connection is interrupted, or to terminate the connection and disconnect the modem when the server shuts. Displaying a clock in the Connection Window lets you track the amount of time you have been connected. Setting Dial-Up to minimize or dock to the Panel when it makes a connection places the clock on the Panel.
You can also customize the colors that appear in the throughput graph. The throughput graph displays the amount and speed of data flowing from your connection.