I’ve read about the “metered” trick. It works for wireless, but not for direct connection, which I prefer.
My install finished OK after a bunch of false starts, but that’s when I found I had a crippled computer—the drivers for both ethernet direct and wireless were there in device manager, but it said they couldn’t be loaded. That’s when I had to try roll-back, which worked quickly and well.
The install loop push is what I’ve had for the past several days, and is why I tried pretty hard to do the upgrade.
My apologies - turns out my recent upgrade to 1703 is one version old and the latest one is 1709, which I’m downloading now, very slowly because my connection has used up all of its monthly LTE quota on the last upgrade. I could strangle somebody in Redmond right now.