toolhound
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posted on December 11, 2001 02:36:15 AM
Anyone recomend a good ISP? I have been using AOL for 2 years and have had it with them. It has been 6 days since I have been able to upload photos with there FTP service. Customer service can not even give a date this will be fixed.
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REAMOND
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posted on December 11, 2001 07:04:19 AM
I can recommend RoadRunner Cable, but it is owned by AOL. You get 5 free megs of home page space to host your pics. I've not had the first problem with them yet.
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bjboswell
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posted on December 11, 2001 08:44:28 AM
Dear Toolhound, after 6 years with AOL we switched to ATT Broadband in June  If I could make that smile face cover the page you would start to understand the joy of having AOL out of my life. They were a pain in the butt!! They don't play well with other servers or anything on the webb. Pictures were HELL to load and ebay customers were continually writing saying send me that photo would you! They make EVERYTHING about selling on eBay so difficult. The only, ONLY thing I miss about AOL is the mail service which is easier to use than any other. My best advise is go broadband if you can and Auction watch is just the best, so easy. As President Clinton would say "I feel your pain" TRUST ME!
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sun818
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posted on December 11, 2001 09:52:39 AM
I'm with EarthLink now. I switched from PacBell (now SBC) after two years of average service. I like EarthLink much better. Their technical support is better and I get the help I need. If you decide on DSL, EarthLink is great because you get three times the upload speed (384Kbps) instead of the usual 128Kbps for the same monthly price as ISPs charge. If you have cable, well that's even better I guess :?
[ edited by sun818 on Dec 11, 2001 10:14 AM ]
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REAMOND
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posted on December 11, 2001 10:38:33 AM
AOL is "difficult" for a reason. From the start AOL has attempted to keep their users corraled in the AOL pen. The "internet" is not supposed to exist outside of AOL. They have designed their service accordingly.
AOL may go the way of Apple. Jobs thought the same way concerning Apple's OS and the box it came in. Pretty soon people will have to start asking the same question that Mac users always have to ask- Will it work with AOL ?
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stopwhining
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posted on December 11, 2001 12:20:55 PM
i am on aol,have been for 6 years.
i agree ,aol is good for beginners and good for emails and good for staying within the world of aol.
to get on internet is like driving an old chevy and watching others zoom by in thier BMW,HONDA CIVIC,TOYOTA CAMRY,JAGUAR,LEXUS and any car you care to add.
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dixiebee
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posted on December 12, 2001 05:26:17 AM
I have been a Mindspring/Earthlink customer for years. In fact, some of my clients have switched to Earthlink for the web hosting capabilities. I have found their customer service to be some of the best that I have ever encountered, not that I've needed them all that often.
I also have AOL but only because my Gateway computer came with a free year. I will probably keep it on the "bring your own access" plan after the freebie expires next month just so I have a backup provider.
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vogeldanl
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posted on December 12, 2001 06:15:13 AM
Using Road Runner here through Cox. Very few problems and high speed service is great. Immediate downloads and no waiting.
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ageless
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posted on December 12, 2001 11:06:52 AM
Go to cable! You'll never use an ISP again.
Peg
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sun818
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posted on December 12, 2001 11:12:41 AM
You're funny Peg LOL
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glassgrl
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posted on December 12, 2001 11:44:21 AM
here's a special Earthlink Web Page I found the other day if you're just joining up:
http://home.earthlink.net/~vipaccounts/
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terrydarc
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posted on December 12, 2001 12:31:42 PM
Maybe everybody knows this and maybe not but just having AOL as an ISP does not mean that you need to use them as your browser application.
What this means is that you can:
1. Log into AOL as normal and watch all the irritating adversing and useless bs windows cover your screen.
2. Get rid of all the bs windows, but minimize (that's the little button in the upper right hand corner usually a minus sign) the AOL login window.
3. Bring up Internet Explorer or Netscape and use their application. I don't know if that's what toolsmith wants to do, sounds like maybe using AOL's webspace is the problem, but I thought maybe someone might benefit.
The reason this works is that the internet uses a protocol that is not based on AOL or any other particular ISP. Once the connection to the net is made you can talk to it in that protocol in any way you choose.
Terry
[ edited by terrydarc on Dec 12, 2001 12:33 PM ]
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