I joined a new company called Goal Line Solutions recently. It is a Canadian company just starting off in Sri Lanka. So I have been working from home till they make arrangements for a place.
Today after constantly bugging the help desk of SLT I finally got the ADSL connection. Finally a guy from SLT team figured out what my problem was which was setting a wrong Encapsulation mode. For two whole days I have been hearing many reasons for not getting the connection, few of which are 'Your password must be wrong' (heard this one on two occations, 'We have not still connected it', 'It is working from here', 'We had a server down, it will be up in a couple of hours', 'You will get it today evening', 'You will get it today', 'You will get it tomorrow', etc, etc.
Aparently the default settings the ADSL modem installs when i run the setup needs to be changed. Because for new connections SLT is using PPPoE and LLC Multiplexing and not PPPoA.