Why AOL Sucks

[Anebriated]

For a long time I have been subject to dialup internet. Mostly because i havent really had many problems with it. Simplicity is good, change bad. Anyway, about 3 weeks ago the AOL icons on my desktop stopped working. I would have to log out, log back in and then try to restart AOL. The whole logging in process would easily take 5-10 minutes. AOL must have a sense of humor because once I was finally in they would boot me back off. This happened on occasion luckily until tonight. After maybe 30-45 minutes on the phone with some foreign lady the best advice she could give me was "remove AOL and reinstall it". Now we tried this two days ago and it didnt work then, guess what, it didnt work this time either. After this whole mess what does AOL do? They connect me to another department where they try to sell me some shitty camera and something else. What the fuck. Honestly, Im already pissed off about your company being a piece of shit and your program not working, do you really think you can convince me to buy something from you now? Use a little common sense.

On tuesday I was already planning on going down to comcast to get the supplies that I need to set up the cable internet in my house. Hopefully this will put an end to all of the AOhelL days in my house. Granted they did give us 2 free months for our troubles(YAY! :thumbsdown: )

[Bobmuhthol]

AOL started sucking around 1998.

[Anebriated]

The funny thing is that I still have the Install CD's for 3.1 and 4.

[Numbers]

Did you upgrade to AOL 9.0 Optimized SE?

That's buggy as hell, and it's absolutely insane at how much shit it does to your computer. It tries to take over for Microsoft programs by making it your default browser. It'll try to take over from Norton by making it your anti-virus. It'll try to take over from AdAware/SpyWare by making it your spyware scanner. It'll even try to take over for WinAmp or whatever music player you use. And then, just for good measure, it'll kill your girlfriend and then rape you.

If you did upgrade to it, get rid of it. Thoroughly. Get rid of every last trace of it. Download Microsoft's old RegClean (you'll probably need to google it, since it's not Microsoft supported anymore,) to get rid of AOL registry entries. Then just go to download.com and download AOL 7 or 8.

[Anebriated]

Ill do one better in 2 days, ill delete every trace of AOL and not think twice. Then ill be able to think about Comcast and be in the land of high-speed internet :drool:

[Edaarin]

I tried to cancel AOL on Friday and the guy gave me 3 free months instead. Bastard.

[Bobmuhthol]

It's probably free for the first minute and $50/hour afterward.

Fuck AOL.

[Artha]

Comcast is nice, except at low-traffic times (real early morning/late night), they go out alot. Atleast here.

[Bobmuhthol]

Charter Communications is so fucking pwn.

[Wezas]

Cox Communications here in Northern VA. Never seems to slow down.

[Sylphsyte]

:grr:I got free AOL for 5 months.. I kept trying to cancel my free 60 days thing at the end of each month and I kept telling them they suck, free isn't allways good .. now I have Juno. But, I'm so cheap I'm going to penny pinchers hell.

[Scott]

Originally posted by Artha
Comcast is nice, except at low-traffic times (real early morning/late night), they go out alot. Atleast here.

I have never had any problems with them except once when there was an outage for 1 hour like a month ago. Although I'm right outside Philadelphia, so that might have something to do since that's where their main office is.

[Artha]

Sounds like AOL should change their slogan to "So hard to cancel, no wonder it's number 1."

[Hulkein]

Yeah I don't have any problem with Comcast either. I can't think of the last time the cable was down for an extended period of time.

[Parkbandit]

Roadrunner.

Enough said.

[Hanksbane]

Welcome to the land of High Speed Internet. Once you're iin, you'll never want to leave.

I have comcast as well and I haven't had any problems. I had one about two months ago, but I had an older modem and they came out and replaced it and its been workin fine ever since.

[Back]

I've had both Roadrunner and Comcast and I have to say Comcast has less problems. I think we had a very short outage once on a weekend morning for about 20 minutes.

I started my AOL account back in 94 I think. The only reason I still have it is because I use it as my permanent email address. Plus, I use the 20MB per screen name web space.

Cable is expensivo, but, somehow I find a way to pay for it every month.

[Anebriated]

:thumbsup: I went down to Comcast and picked up the self-install kit and then hit up circuit city for wireless router etc... Took a little while but I finally have it all up and running. Its a little slow which im guessing is due to the distance I am from the router. Im still very satisfied with what I have as its faster than dialup was. Tomorrow after I have slept a bit Ill try to figure out a way to bring the router closer so I get better signal...

[Back]

Bandwidth Test. (http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/)

3.3 megabits per second

Communications 3.3 megabits per second
Storage 399.6 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 2.6 seconds
Subjective rating Awesome

Explain results


Info

Date & time Monday, July 26, 11:40PM*
Test type IDT4 Free
Connection type Cable
Region District of Columbia
Data size 605KB
IP address xxx.xxx.xxxx.xxxx
Provider Comcast Cable Communications, Inc.

[Soulpieced]

Communications 6 megabits per second
Storage 736 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 1.4 seconds
Subjective rating Awesome

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I'm gonna miss school... :(

[Edited on 7-27-2004 by Soulpieced]

[Back]

Originally posted by Soulpieced
Communications 6 megabits per second
Storage 736 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 1.4 seconds
Subjective rating Awesome

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I'm gonna miss school... :(

[Edited on 7-27-2004 by Soulpieced]

Holy freaking A. Are you on Sun or Linux? Is that a lab or the library? Which school?

[Numbers]

Most schools have insane Internet speeds, even in the dorms.

Especially the schools connected to Internet2.

[The Korean]

Communications 3.3 megabits per second
Storage 406 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 2.5 seconds
Subjective rating Awesome

[DeV]

AOL is virtually impossible to remove from your hard drive once it's on there. Fuckers.

[Soulpieced]

I'm off-campus, but it runs through the on-campus network. There is a 45 mb/sec DS-3 router I believe I am going through and I think the servers on campus are Unix.

[MrFeature]

AOL isnt the internet. And that commercial with the fucking baby and the hammer pisses me off each time I see it.

[Artha]

2.8 megabits per second
Communications 2.8 megabits per second
Storage 347.1 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 3 seconds
Subjective rating Great


Mmmmm.

[Meos]

AOL was cool when you could punt people with aohell and shit.

[Parkbandit]

Originally posted by Parkbandit
Roadrunner.

Enough said.

THE ONE GOD DAMN DAY I give any sort of props to Roadrunner...

My modem takes a dump and prevents me from pwning people at poker. That damn Tech better be by today with a new one or I might switch to AOL Broadband!!

Ok.. maybe not... but he better be there today!

[Parkbandit]

Ok.. modem replaced and it's supposedly working even faster than before the modem blew up.

I stand by Roadrunner... you should too.