[X4U] Connection issue

[Jerry Krinock]

On 2011 Dec 29, at 13:08, Winston MacKelvie wrote:

> iMac always connects to internet via PPPoE.

Yuck.  This was the way we did it 10 years ago.  It often led to pain as you have just endured.

Nowadays, cable or DSL modems have the PPPoE built in.  You enter the your PPPoE credentials into the configuration of your cable or DSL modem, and it remembers them and does the PPPoE for you.  Much less trouble.  Plus, if you could do that, you iPad and iPhone would still be able to connect to the internet when your Mac was off.