AOL Users in 'ere please.

LoadsaMoney · 21 May 2006 at 15:34

tolien said:
You can change your forum email address.

Ahh thanks.

LoadsaMoney · 26 May 2006 at 14:30

Just an update, ive finally got my MAC code from Tiscali, and so have ordered AOL's 1mb Silver, not really bothered about online gaming now as i aint played online games for months, i only played a bit of BF2 anyway, the main selling points were the no FUP, and being totally Unlimited, and theres no throttling/shaping going on, Tiscali rekon they are Unlimited, but they have started traffic shaping p2p so you can't get more than 5k a sec or less down, and thats in off peak hrs to, where they say in their FUP that using p2p in off peak hrs is fine by them, but at 5k or less you would'nt bother, which i dont now.

Thanks again for all the comments.

I spoke to a very nice Irish lass to when i phoned up.

OzZie · 26 May 2006 at 17:50

Been with AOL two years now. Started off at 512mb then got a free upgrade to 1mb. A year later it was a free upgrade to 2mb and just today i've gotten a free upgrade to 8mb

Yeah there good.

LoadsaMoney · 26 May 2006 at 18:25

OzZie said:
Been with AOL two years now. Started off at 512mb then got a free upgrade to 1mb. A year later it was a free upgrade to 2mb and just today i've gotten a free upgrade to 8mb

Yeah there good.

Thanks, im looking forward to it now, only about 10 days she said, and i get a free wireless router as well.

OzZie · 26 May 2006 at 18:46

Just to tease you a little more, i got my ADSL modem after 4 days. Women on the phone said give it 2 weeks.

LoadsaMoney · 26 May 2006 at 21:02

OzZie said:
Just to tease you a little more, i got my ADSL modem after 4 days. Women on the phone said give it 2 weeks.

Cool, she never said when id get mine, she just said would take about 10 days to do the switch, hopefully ill have the modem by then then.

ANDARIAL · 26 May 2006 at 21:57

bit of a thread hijack i was/am looking into migrating to Aol from Eclipse,have currently got eclipse max dsl @3.1 atm.BUT the AOL website says congratulations you can get aol @512.....WTF no way am i migrating under those conditions

anyone know if the website checker is faulty?
i mailed them and got the standard please call our highly trained (punjabi) helpline @£***** per minute

no thank you

LoadsaMoney · 26 May 2006 at 22:04

ANDARIAL said:
bit of a thread hijack i was/am looking into migrating to Aol from Eclipse,have currently got eclipse max dsl @3.1 atm.BUT the AOL website says congratulations you can get aol @512.....WTF no way am i migrating under those conditions
anyone know if the website checker is faulty?
i mailed them and got the standard please call our highly trained (punjabi) helpline @£***** per minute no thank you

Yeah i got that to, its the checker as i put my dads phone number in and it said the same thing up to 512k, and hes already on their 1mb silver service.

I phoned up, and the lass asked what package i wanted, so i said the 1mb silver and she said my line was fine for that, and im probably already on 1mb anyway as thats the most my line can have, so i just said yeah ive already got 1mb.

Theres a guy been posting on the Tiscali forums about AOL, he said he migrated to them about 2 weeks ago, says they great, no FUP, no throttling/traffic shaping nowt, he's been downloading 24/7 at cracking speeds.

Richdog · 26 May 2006 at 22:14

LoadsaMoney said:
Hi all,

Any AOL users here as im thinking of migrating over to them from Tiscali, (was gona try Eclipse, but seen as they are throttling now, and i can't anyway as they say for Tiscali id have to cancel that, and go through the whole sign up with them thing, as they can't migrate Tiscali, so id be without internet for years) whats your thoughts, how do you find them, any trouble with p2p, that sort of thing, as they are about the only true Unlimited service out there.

Thanks.

Mate you're thinking of going from one awful ISP to another, why? :eek:

AOL are the pits... they filter your online contect, they were even voted worst tech product of all time lately! http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,125772,pg,2,00.asp

How do we loathe AOL? Let us count the ways. Since America Online emerged from the belly of a BBS called Quantum "PC-Link" in 1989, users have suffered through awful software, inaccessible dial-up numbers, rapacious marketing, in-your-face advertising, questionable billing practices, inexcusably poor customer service, and enough spam to last a lifetime. And all the while, AOL remained more expensive than its major competitors. This lethal combination earned the world's biggest ISP the top spot on our list of bottom feeders.

AOL succeeded initially by targeting newbies, using brute-force marketing techniques. In the 90s you couldn't open a magazine (PC World included) or your mailbox without an AOL disk falling out of it. This carpet-bombing technique yielded big numbers: At its peak, AOL claimed 34 million subscribers worldwide, though it never revealed how many were just using up their free hours.

Once AOL had you in its clutches, escaping was notoriously difficult. Several states sued the service, claiming that it continued to bill customers after they had requested cancellation of their subscriptions. In August 2005, AOL paid a $1.25 million fine to the state of New York and agreed to change its cancellation policies--but the agreement covered only people in New York.

Ultimately the Net itself--which AOL subscribers were finally able to access in 1995-- made the service's shortcomings painfully obvious. Prior to that, though AOL offered plenty of its own online content, it walled off the greater Internet. Once people realized what content was available elsewhere on the Net, they started wondering why they were paying AOL. And as America moved to broadband, many left their sluggish AOL accounts behind. AOL is now busy rebranding itself as a content provider, not an access service.

Though America Online has shown some improvement lately--with better browsers and e-mail tools, fewer obnoxious ads, scads of broadband content, and innovative features such as parental controls--it has never overcome the stigma of being the online service for people who don't know any better.

Surely there must be a better choice for ya matey?

LoadsaMoney · 26 May 2006 at 22:44

Theres loads of ppl rate them, and loads of ppl not having any problems with them.

ants83 · 27 May 2006 at 00:32

i rate aol no problems here, i dont use there software just use my address and password through a router. On 2MB unlimited £19.99 never had a connection drop or anything else wrong for that matter in 1 and a half years

OzZie · 27 May 2006 at 10:28

Yeah, its the AOL software that is memory hungry. Don't install it unless you want all the AOL extras like music videos etc. Just connect as any other ADSL modem via windows

bbreezeuk · 27 May 2006 at 10:53

hey guys how can i get online without using the supplied software and modem as they are constantly disconnnecting. i have a spare adsl modem that i cannot get working its a netgear dg632 and i have tried and tried but to no avail.

OzZie · 27 May 2006 at 12:06

I've gotten the DG632 and AOL so i know it works.

Install the USB drivers for the modem. Go into your internet browser "192.168.0.1" password "password" run the auto setup wizard and make sure where it says username to add "@aol.com" to the end. Password is just the same. Reboot and you should be connected.

LoadsaMoney · 27 May 2006 at 15:42

Theres a program called AOL Connect you can get so you don't have to use their software, been reading about it, anybody used it before.

bbreezeuk · 27 May 2006 at 16:20

LoadsaMoney said:
Theres a program called AOL Connect you can get so you don't have to use their software, been reading about it, anybody used it before.

yep, its just as crap as the aol software

bbreezeuk · 27 May 2006 at 16:21

OzZie said:
I've gotten the DG632 and AOL so i know it works.

Install the USB drivers for the modem. Go into your internet browser "192.168.0.1" password "password" run the auto setup wizard and make sure where it says username to add "@aol.com" to the end. Password is just the same. Reboot and you should be connected.

ive treid that many time m8, i will have another go when i get home and post back, thanks for the info

OzZie · 27 May 2006 at 17:31

LoadsaMoney said:
Theres a program called AOL Connect you can get so you don't have to use their software, been reading about it, anybody used it before.

You dont need to use the software anyway to connect

Draeger · 27 May 2006 at 17:38

OzZie said:
You dont need to use the software anyway to connect

Yep:-

Go to Start>>Control Panel>>Network and Internet Connections>>Network Connections

Click on Create a new connection

Disregard the connection already present ( circled in red ), thats the one I've got in there already, you wont have one there yet.

The New Connection box pops up:-

Select "Connect to the Internet":-

Draeger · 27 May 2006 at 17:39

Choose "Set up my connection manually":-

Select "Connect using a broadband connection that requires a username and password":-

Enter a name for the ISP, doesn't matter what, just something to identify it as the AOL connection:-

Enter your username and password:-

This MUST be your master screen name and correct AOL password, exactly as it as you enter it within the AOL software. Also, UNTICK the boxes below the boxes for the username and password.