On my Lenovo Tablet 2 I am using a dial up connection to get the internet over a bluetooth connection to my phone.
It works great, but the phone number (the standard *99#) is always thrown away at power-down. All that is left is the single character *
Under XP, this stuff was stored in *.pbk files, but a) the Win8 "search" finds no files of that name (I am actually not sure the win8 search actually works - it probably searches only some user's space, not drive c: as such) and b) winXP did not lose the dial up number anyway.
I have another dial-up connection, the Thuraya 1722 number, and that is fine. So it just looks like Win8 doesn't like numbers which start with a *.
After some experimenting I found that it is the act of dialing the connection which causes the number to get stripped. If you just set the number to *99# and restart the machine or whatever, it stays OK.
