Windows 8 rant

[ohio_grad_06]

BAH!!!!! Beginning to really hate Windows 8. So anyway, we are in the middle of getting 6-14 inches of snow. So I have time to play with my home network. We recently switched from Charter to ATT Uverse DSL. I originally had Charter for TV/Internet, but they were charging a lot of the time more than 200 per month, bill was supposed to be 165-170 for both. Time for change.

Got Dish Network set up, zero issues.

Here's where the fun starts. So we also inquired about ATT Uverse dsl. No problem, 12mbps. Not as fast as the 30 mb package I had with charter, but liveable. Tech comes out yesterday(apparently in our home before we moved in someone had cut all the wires to every phone jack in the house). They wired it, got the router set up, no worries all works fine.

Anyway, as stated, today I've had time to play with it. Noticing speeds of only 2-3 mbps. What's the deal?!?!?!???? Decided to disable the wifi of the ATT router, and put my netgear I've been running for however long into service(naturally ATT people told me it would not work right, they were wrong. I'm paying for 12mbps, I want 12mbps lol.

I set the ATT device to only be allowed to dole out a measly 4 IP addresses, and disable it's wifi capability, effectively making it act more like a modem than a router, hook my router up set up a static IP, everything should be fine, got it working.

Go to my Windows 8 system, and go into control panel to remove old wifi settings so I can set up with my router again.

Apparently Microsoft in their infinite wisdom decided to take out the tool that was present in Windows 7 to manage the profiles!!!!!!!!! I'm a bit disgusted by them doing that. Googled around, but the things I found didn't work or were limited. I ended up using the tip I found where I had to open up a command prompt and use

netsh wlan show profiles

then

netsh wlan delete profile name=[profile name]

What I'm bothered by is WHY WOULD MICROSOFT REMOVE A FULLY FUNCTIONAL TOOL? I mean they want people to use their OS, how many businesses or enterprises may have MULTIPLE wifi networks??????? I mean hello if you want me to use the OS make the OS usable!!!! I mean really!!!! I'm one of the few that I know that is actually trying to make a go of Windows 8. I run it even on my personal gaming box at home, but to remove that tool, WHY?? If it's not broke don't fix it!!! On the bright side maybe Linux will make headway! I just don't understand why they took that out, I used to use that all the time. This also means for some clients techs may have to make 2nd or 3rd trips to places to fix things that should be easy! I'm just saying!!!!!!!

 

[lan101]

windows 8 and logic lol

I know in my area time warner pretty much has a monopoly if you want good internet. Up to 50MB. I got the 20/2 package and it works well most of the time.

The dsl in the area is 1-3MB so it's not even usable to me.

 

[ohio_grad_06]

Yes we switched to att dsl. We have 12/1. It's not bad, But a bit agitated when I was getting speeds of 2-3 download when paying for 12. I wanted to switch to the 18 mb package. They offer it in my area but said that they are basically forcing 12 so if I switch I may get line drops. Better to stay with 12 it's liveable. More so now that I'm using my own router again.

 

[glricht]

Apparently Microsoft in their infinite wisdom decided to take out the tool that was present in Windows 7 to manage the profiles!!!!!!!!! I'm a bit disgusted by them doing that. Googled around, but the things I found didn't work or were limited.

Have you tried "WiFi Profile Manager 8"? http://www.thewindowsclub.com/wifi-profile-manager-windows-8

I've got it in my bag-o-tools, but have only tried it a couple of times. Seemed OK with the tests I did.

 

[ohio_grad_06]

Tried it and couldn't get that app to work for me. It basically runs but I can't seem to even delete a network with that

 

[ohio_grad_06]

Apparently you were supposed to be able to use the metro menu to do this by right clicking the ssid and it was supposed to give you the option but didn't see that either.

 

[tek9]

Apparently you were supposed to be able to use the metro menu to do this by right clicking the ssid and it was supposed to give you the option but didn't see that either.

I had to delete some wifi profiles the other day on Win 8.1 and the right-click menu on metro didn't give me that option. Had to go the cmd route. M$ impresses me more every day.