Modem and WAN miniport, com confusion

Hi everyone! I've been stuggling for 2 days and nights to figure this one out! So tired! I"m on an older hp pavilion a710n desktop and have been using the built in modem on a basic dial in AOL for 11 years. Now for some reason when I connect the network connection jumps right past the modem and does a WAN miniport connection, making a direct connection to the Internet. Unfortunately, the speed of this connection is 10kbps!! Seems to run ok, but can't keep up with the McAfee security! No updates. Modem is showing up ok on computer and AOL dialup, I have slowed it down to 9600 as recommended. Any thoughts? Thanks, guys, for your time and effort. It takes a lot to figure this stuff out!! Have a great week.

Hello, is there nobody who can help? No workaround for uninstalling these WAN Miniport devices? Is it necessary at all to uninstall the remaining WAN Miniport devices, or can I continue with the (already killed and missing) 3 WAN Miniport devices?
Please, any help is highly appreciated!
Thanks, Marc
Hi, Me too is facing the exact issue as Marc i have also deleted the following:
WAN minport (IP)
WAN minport (IPv6)
WAN minport (L2tp)
WAN minport (Network Monitor)
WAN minport (PPPoE)
WAN minport (PPTP)
except the fact i am on win7 64 bit os. and my wifi is gone completely and on suing troubleshooter i have got the error of DNS server not found which i am sure due to these deleted miniports. Any help to get these drivers back on would be highly appreciated.
Rgds,
Sum1spl

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Hey guys,
This is my 2nd W530. The first one was replaced for the same issues I'm having now.
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Thanks for that, it's actually exactly what I wanted to read
Again, which WLAN adapter do you have in the system please?
When I read your post yesterday I took a look in my device manager and it was showing exactly the same problem which hadn't been present two days ago. It's something I've been keeping an eye on because I have the Intel Centrino Advanced N-6205 WLAN card which seems to be having problems being reported all over the web.
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I have as yet been unable to get rid of the error by uninstalling the update, uninstalling / reinstalling drivers and various other softwares which could be a factor, but haven't given up yet.
Any chance you could roll back your system to a point where the error wasn't showing in Device Manager and see if you can replicate what I have experienced by just installing the one update?
Edit; for the record I am using a T430 W8 x64.
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Lenovo B590 configuration or hardware problems (microphone and WAN miniport)?

Hi,
First message here. :-)
Ok, when I use the integrated microphone, I can barely hear myself. It has always worked like that and I don't know if there's a problem. I uninstalled and installed the drivers, I amplified +20 dB and the output is very low. When I'm trying out different things, if I try to configure speech recognition and read the sentence I can see how the bar oscillates like it recognizes some sound, but the result is too low and it tells me that it couldn't hear a thing.
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Hi EXinthenet, welcome to the forums,
regarding the WAN Miniport, it seems that a recent Microsoft update (KB2836988) has caused this to happen on some systems, unfortunately uninstalling the update doesn't solve the problem.
You could do a system restore in Windows to a point before the update was installed and then whan you update hide / exclude the update by right clicking it before updating. More information and an alternative fix can be found in the following threads,
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I would suggest starting another thread for the microphone issue, don't forget to state which operating system version, 32 bit / 64 bit, and sound driver versions you have installed.
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WAN MINIPORT ERROR AND TAKES A LONG TIME TO SHUT DOWN

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Hi,
May I know thw error code displayed in the problematic wan miniport drivers? Code 720 as in the link you post above or other error code?
This link can be helpful for further troubleshooting (please create a restore point before making changs to the system in case any incorrect operations can cause unexpected issue)
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I got a new modem and imac says connected with the airport, but cant get a web page to come up on either safari or firefox

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Hello sstefanik
Check out the articles below to troubleshoot your issues with getting a proper connection with Wi-FI. Try creating a new Network Location and join your network to see if you can get on that way.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4628
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HT1178 I have BT Infinity at home with the BT modem connected to the phone line and then to a BThub which delivers the wif signal. I have purchased an airport extreme to improve wi fi strength if how do I connect up to hub it states connect modem to WAN o

I have BT Infinity at home with the BT modem connected to the phone line and then to a BThub which delivers the wif signal. I have purchased an airport extreme to improve wi fi strength if how do I connect up to hub it states connect modem to WAN on back of Airport Extreme.
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Problem first turned up when I set up the machine, which at the time was a low end Nvidia AGP card, no PCI 128, no SIIG card, one CD, one HD.
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Enfield, NH USA
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Cricket UM185C Broadband Modem and Snow Leopard 10.6.x

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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2142240&start=15&tstart=0
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Hi Cowicide Moo,
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[X1C] is it okay to uninstall the WAN miniport driver?

Many of the X1C have the "WAN Miniport (Network monitor) #2 problem" issue, and this seems lead to ocassional wifi drops.
And I have done a bit of researh and find out the solution, which is to uninstall the WAN miniport
I wanna know do I have to install the WAN miniport again??
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Hi victoria63, welcome to the forums,
both of your posted questions could actually be related according to the first of the following links. The other links may also be of interest to you.
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If you haven't already, running Windows Update and Lenovo System Update may possibly solve the situations.
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WAN miniport drivers

I am running a Windows 7 64 bit on an HP Pavilion p6367c. Everytime I try to troubleshoot it, It says I need to reinstall device drivers for WAN Miniport (ATW) #2 #3, #4. Where do I get the drivers at? And, how do I reinstall them?

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Satellite A660-047 - Missing drivers for WAN Miniport

I have a Toshiba Satellite A660-047 PSAW3C-047017 running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit.
I just downloaded the ISO for Norton Ghost 15, created the installation CD, installed Ghost, and ran the driver validation from the installation CD. I got the following message:
> The following devices do not have drivers in the Symantec Recovery Disk.
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> A detailed information about these devices is given below
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> Description : WAN Miniport (IKEv2)
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From a bit of googling, it seems it is more of a higher level interface than an actual hardware device. I'm not really sure what it's used for, or how likely I will miss it in the event of a recovery. Is this something I should spend time worrying about right away?
The thread http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-hardware/wan-miniport-sstp-driver-problem/f83493ae-8127-47dd-a7b7-7e5b3460b6a6 says it's not needed in "most cases" but I was wondering if any exceptions might be encountered during recovery (when I would like to use WiFi to surf and restore my system to non-factory state, as well as to do diagnostics on a possibly bad HDD).

By the way, would anyone know where to get the driver? I would prefer to get it from a Toshiba or Microsoft site, but the laptop driver download page for my model at Toshiba Canada doesn't list anything containing "wan" or "miniport".
The thread http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itpronetworking/thread/316bec01-01c4-433a-95cb-a0b5b2359beb how to transplant the relevant part of the registry, but I would like to avoid mucking with the registry if possible. I would feel much more confident about having a driver that can be installed by more conventional means (if there is such a thing).

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