The xisp package implements a user-friendly X interface to pppd/chat and provides maximum feedback from the dial-in and login phases on a browser screen, as well as a manual login terminal window. It also provides greater versatility in interrupting a call in progress and in general enhances the user's feeling of "what's going on", especially if he/she is not all that well acquainted with the intricacies of system log files. Xisp also has means to track your phonecosts.