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[-Himanshu-]

It's been 2 days since I installed Windows 8 RTM. I have noticed that the tiles "Weather", "News", "Finance", and "Sports" stop updating randomly. But this happens especially in the morning. I switched on my computer at 6:00 a.m. and it's 10:45 a.m. now. But the tile doesn't show the weather, it has just weather written. I opened the app and it shows the weather and the update time is current time, but the tile will not show weather. I restarted, but to no effect. "Finance" and "Sports" app were showing the news from yesterday, but when I opened and closed these apps, their tiles also stopped showing anything. This happened yesterday too, but the tiles started working at nearly 2:00 p.m. So, what kind of problem is this?

[+sanke1]

Yes. Happened to me too. I feel the whole OS was kinda rushed where they had no time to iron out minor niggles.

[David085]

Maybe you're not doing it right!

[aviator189]

idk, doesn't happen to me.

[-Himanshu-]

I think I solved the problem, I just noticed it now. Whenever I came on desktop the first time after booting, I was greeted with a dial up connection dialog. Since, it was on the desktop, I thought it was some desktop app that wanted to connect, so I just closed it. I saw it just now and hit connect, and then the tiles started updating. I will see whether this solves the problem. BTW, why does metro app ask for connection even after being connected, and that too on desktop?

[-Himanshu-]

I am having the problem again. Yesterday, in the dial up dialog box I checked the option to automatically connect which it did and updated the tiles. But the tiles have stopped updating yet again, and now I am not getting any prompts either. And the weird things is that people, mail, messaging tiles work perfectly. The problem is with weather, news, finance, and sports tiles. I am going crazy!

[paxa]

it seems that the tiles work async, so the sync process could take some time longer than other times.or they timeout. so wait for them to reconnect and get the info

[HawkMan]

Go to Internet option and delete your non existent connections that you don't actually use. They do nothing but mess up anyway. Unfortunately certain mobile broadband sticke insist on adding the.

[-Himanshu-]

Well, there's only one connection. And the behaviour is too random! As I said, yesterday morning they didn't automatically connect nor asked for connection. Whereas, today when I opened my computer, it dialled the connection automatically and updated! And I didn't change a thing. So, I just don't know why does it suddenly stops or starts.

[HawkMan]

Well you should remove that one to, unless you use a 3G stick.those "dialp" connection do nothinng but cause problems.

[-Himanshu-]

Well I need that as I use ADSL to connect my internet and dial up the connection.

[HawkMan]

what kinda ADSL today requires a dial up connection...That stuff should have been done with on ADSL years and years ago.

As long as you have a dial up type connection, you're going to be having these kind of issues as they simply don't work very well.

[-Himanshu-]

Well, I use the router in what i think is bridge mode i.e. I dial the connection using PC. I learnt that there is a PPPoE mode where the router directly connects to internet, but is there any benefit to that mode? I am a "noob" when it comes to networking. I have a severe limit to my broadband (1.5 GB/month, crazy right?) so I don't want my net to be always connected unless I dial in.

[crazysharath]

I'm having the same setup of internet connection and having the same issue like you.
But now it doesn't ask me to connect at beginning.
Any idea what to do?

[-Himanshu-]

Well, best way is to avoid dialling if you don't have a stupid cap like my connection. And that behaviour is seemingly random. Once it didn't ask for connection and the next day it did. What I noticed was that whenever you start your computer first time on any day, it tries to connect. I haven't found anything else. As I said above in the thread, one day it didn't ask me for connection and then asked at nearly ~2:00 p.m. So, I suggest you just continue your work and it will ask after some time.