PPP Dialer dials twice and very slow to connect

[Robert Krueger <rlkrueger sprynet com>]

Hello,
  My RH PPP dialer in Gnome works, and establishes a connection
eventually, but it usually fails on the first dial attempt, and has to
redial before getting a solid connection.
Switching to KDE and the KPPP dialer does not exhibit similar problems,
it works as expected.    This may mean nothing, but it dials extremely
fast.
  Can anyone help me out?

Thanks,
Robert