AOL

[Scutch]

I've been on AOL Gold for f*cking ages now. Well, been with AOL over 10 years now, and Gold is £24.99 for upto 2MB connection. Anyway, was going to cancel it yesterday, mainly because I felt like it. Phoned them up, and was given AOL Gold 8MB for £17.99 plus free phone calls for a year. Nng. Oh well. Better than a kick in the knackers I suppose. F*cking gypo's charging me £24.99 for this long when I could have been on the other, faster tariff for less.

Anyhoo.

 

[McBunny]

thats what you get for been with aol !!

 

[Scutch]

Indeed. In all fairness, the exchange in my area can only handle up to 8MB at the moment.

 

[Lagerlout]

I was with AOL up until a couple of years age - They were about the only viable ISP back in the day (like '96! lol) but they are fuckin gash really. Their software is gash. their customer service is gash and their speeds were also gash.

Glad to see the back of them tbh.

 

[Scutch]

Another satisfied customer.

 

[b3nje]

I have a mickey mouse 28k modem

 

[seb]

i find my aol connectino to be very good at present. pay a tenner for 1mb with aol.

find it works ALOT better withuot their software. infact i have no aol crpa installed at all. Just got my netgear router to do the job. result.

def get a seperate router and remove all traces of aol asap imo scutch.

 

[Scutch]

i find my aol connectino to be very good at present. pay a tenner for 1mb with aol.

find it works ALOT better withuot their software. infact i have no aol crpa installed at all. Just got my netgear router to do the job. result.

def get a seperate router and remove all traces of aol asap imo scutch.

How do I go about doing that? Explain away. I may pay interest, or I may be off talking b****cks in another forum.

 

[seb]

it is easy Scutch.

get something similiar to this:

unistall all the aol crap first. plug it in and read the manual and a few minutes later you will have bb without AOL's s**t software.

you will now be in:

(on a side note you have to enter a few bits and peices inot the router to make it work... but google will quickly find out all that for you.)

 

[Scutch]

Confused.com?

If I uninstall AOL how do I log on and stuff?

 

[seb]

ah this is the beautiful thing.

the router will log on for you once you put in the right info etc into it.

Just make sure you have the correct instructions from google or where ever when you go to install.

One other thing, when i got my netgear router, i had my old pc that didn't have the correct connection on the bakc. my new pc obviously does. myold pc was like 6 years old so be aware of that.

It really is very easy mate. Even i managed it in the end. and it is a lot better than AOL 9.0

 

[seb]

thread on the issues i had with the netgear may be helpful

OR.... the cheaper way...

a way around using AOL 9.0

 

[Scutch]

I will have a go at that Seb. Good man.

 

[canky]

so does that mean u use internet explorer to connect?

i cant really see the problem with aol to be honest, yer their c/s is s**t but what company aint got s**t c/s,

i much prefer the interface with aol rather than internet explorer to be honest, prefer the look of it and the layout

 

[seb]

i found aol 9.0 to disconnect often and crash aswell. i ad ot reinstall everything severla tiems last year. Since removing it all it has not disconnected and cased the crash issues.

horses for courses though

 

[James.]

sounds good seb..can you still acess your AOL email though?

 

[canky]

i found aol 9.0 to disconnect often and crash aswell.

horses for courses though

yer true actually that does happen sometimes.

do u just connect through internet explorer then i guess seb?

 

[JoelDee]

Virgin unlimited 8mb me for 12.99 a month your still getting ripped off at that price cocker, plus AOL are shiiiiiiiiiite

 

[Scutch]

Indeed, more info on the AOL thing please

 

[seb]

which aol thing?

you can access aol email via their website OR if you install a program called AOL communicator. it is actually quite a good bit of software.

I currently use outlook to access my aol email.

 

[Scutch]

Good stuff. I think I'll have a go at all this. Need one of those router things first though I guess.

 

[seb]

not for the link to bluepetes thread.

 

[Jonesy]

remember u will be in another 12 month contract now, i was with aol for a long time and they were fine except expensive so moved to pipex who were the worst company in the world, paid out the 7 months left and went to sky who are awesome!

 

[dutty_112]

i currently work for talktalk..

basically what it is if u take a telephone package with us which is £19.99, u get your call time around the uk for free at anytime and anyday, also includes ur VAT, Linerental and Service Charge! And you also get free Broadband!! All for £19.99. The only time you go over the £19.99 is when you ring mobiles - which you can get 43% discount on if you register 11 mobile numbers and if you ring 0845 numbers for instance you bank or sex line numbers you can get a further 10% discount!

No catch to it, if u want the free broadband, you obviously have to be put into an 18month contract. Broadband is an 8meg speed thingy..lol and 40gig download!