I did some more testing with the same configuration. It looks quite a bit different now: The wizard does in fact ask for enough to get a working connection with bob. This public username/password combination ([email protected]/ppp) is not necessary to get a connection working at full speed and with nameservers. It is possibly a provider specific problem that I am not always given a nameserver. The other problem that misled me is that it just does never work the first 2 or three tries (after a totally new configuration via the new device wizard). This migth have something to do with time. I had the feeling it connected after less attempts when I waited some time (minutes) before trying to connect. Anyway those connection failings at the beginning had me searching for a problem with the password, which is not even strictly necessary and possibly works with whatever is put there (including the PUK which does not belong there at all and is in fact not necessary anywhere at anytime in normal operation). What the username/password connection really does would be good to know. It is (for bob) stored in the upstream mobile-broadband-provider-info that has not yet been pulled into ubuntu. Maybe there are some kind of billing trouble if a connection is used without this information, at least under some circumstances?
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