I allways get disconnected when using Apple USB Modem

Hello!
I have bought the Apple USB Modem with my MacBook and want to use it for a dail-in connection in the netherlands (kpn). But when I dail in, I allways get disconnected. After dailing in, sometimes I can open a few pages in Firefox, sometimes only one page or not any page at all. Sometimes I can open an IMAP folder with Thunderbird, but most times I get disconnected before. When I establish a SSH connetion, it works a little bit longer, but after some time the connection is terminated too. Most times I have to wait very long (>20 seconds) until a hostname is resolved, sometimes it's quite fast, somtimes resolving fails. Especially when I try to open several websites at the same time I get disconnected very soon.
Most times I get an error message like "modem unexpectedly disconnected connection".
Can someone tell me where I can get more information about WHY the connection was disconnected?
This way I cannot use the Internet, sometimes it takes up to 1 hour to come to a particular web-page (e.g. open a special mail in my web-mail account).
Best regards
Andreas

Found it:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=2751726#2751726
Thank you! I use 10.4.7, but could not try it yet, but looks promising. Does Apple know about the problem? Will there be a fix in an update soon?
Thanks again!
Seems many other people have the same problem, see comments at:
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore?productLearnMore=MA0 34Z/A

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