Ichinisan
Lifer
- Oct 9, 2002
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Talked to someone on the phone yesterday. She had a new Windows 8 laptop and somehow managed to create a PPPoE connection (simulates dial-up authentication through a wired Ethernet connection). Her Internet connection is an always-on cable modem that obviously doesn't use PPPoE. She named the PPPoE connection "NuLink" (the ISP's name). The computer was constantly prompting her to "connect to NuLink" and failing with a message like "could not connect to "NuLink" (even though she was always connected to the ISP and working the entire time). Sure, WinXP users accidentally create these all the time because the Internet Connection Wizard's questions are all wrong...but at least it's no big deal to delete the connection profile that was accidentally created.
How am I supposed to do this with Windows 8? I had to walk her through typing "Network Connections" into search and clicking the correct category, then the correct icon. It took multiple attempts. Then we were able to delete the "NuLink" PPPoE connection she had created.
That doesn't seem like "the right way" or "the Windows 8 way." I wasted time trying to find the proper/Win8 way first. I would open the charm bar and go to Settings > Network, where PPPoE and VPN connections appear for you to connect / disconnect...but there was absolutely no way to delete it from there.
FFFFFFFFFF...
How am I supposed to do this with Windows 8? I had to walk her through typing "Network Connections" into search and clicking the correct category, then the correct icon. It took multiple attempts. Then we were able to delete the "NuLink" PPPoE connection she had created.
That doesn't seem like "the right way" or "the Windows 8 way." I wasted time trying to find the proper/Win8 way first. I would open the charm bar and go to Settings > Network, where PPPoE and VPN connections appear for you to connect / disconnect...but there was absolutely no way to delete it from there.
FFFFFFFFFF...