Hi there, I was speakin' to Macca a few mins ago and we got onto the subject of my AOL. He recons it's total shat. What do you lot think?? :confused: :bow:

its good if you are new to the net!

Its no good.

 

It changes setting so that you cant get on certain sites making you use theirs. For example, when my sister went to AOL Hotmail stopped working as did a number of other site. Some pages would not display correctly unless you used the AOL broswer where they send themselves information about what you are looking at.

Its no good.

 

It changes setting so that you cant get on certain porn sites making you use theirs.

 

thats no good then!

Pile of crap IMHO - it does things to your system which are unnecessary and doesn't provide a true Windows TCP/IP stack. Also, you can't share the AOL connection (if that's something you may want to do)

 

Steve :)

Pile of crap IMHO - it does things to your system which are unnecessary and doesn't provide a true Windows TCP/IP stack. Also, you can't share the AOL connection (if that's something you may want to do)

 

Steve :)

 

 

Listen to what Steve says as he has had years and years of PC experiance;)

 

 

Oh new sig for you Jonce :rofl: ;)

They are shit mate.

 

They charged me for four months in one go on my credit card as they 'forgot' to charge me. They didnt notify me of the mistake etc and just took the money out of the accout when there wasnt any in there. They said it wasnt their prob and they dont notify people of anything in writing WTF?

 

I couldnt even cancel my contract with them, they wouldnt let me! I had to make numerous phone calls and speak to about 10 brainless twats before getting something done.

 

They would not even send me a statement of my account with them or anything to say how the charges were calculated.

 

They are ****ing useless mate

AOL

 

****ing pile of dog shit. Dont go near it unless you want to pay a computer guy £100 to remove it once you find out it is shit.

 

Wish someone would sue em for the amount of unwanted rubbish the software does to poor peoples computers that use it.

 

Can you tell I dont like AOL?

Do you believe me now matey? LOL;)

MINES OK at least with aol broadband you get unlimited downloads hence why i chose them ;) with most others thers a limit each month fook that especially the amount of videos i download just IMO,i havent had any problems with mine YET :D

with most others thers a limit each month

 

I knew someone out there would fall for that advert! Some ISP's have transfer limits in place, but there are still many, many out there without (in fact, I'd go so far as to say the majority).. Some are cheaper than AOL, and they all offer better service... (Which isn't hard)..

 

Just my AOL-hating 2penneth..

Repeat after me, AOL is Evil, AOL is Evil.

 

Run away, don't touch it and NEVER ask a computing person to help you should you stupidly decide to use it !

:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

What am i to do. I've got the message its fooking pile of dog shat. How do i change because i don't want to loose all my links to my sites like ebay, paypal etc and any other that has required my email address :confused:

AOL is arse.... they are the Nissan Main Dealers of ISP's

 

top five arse ISP's (imo)

 

AOL

BTopenworld

Demon

Wanadoo

Virgin

Well I have to say I have never had any of the problems mentioned above with AOL. I have been with them for going on 10yrs now, have upgraded, removed and reinstalled without any probs. All of my programs work, even though you log onto some web services and they say "if your using AOL this wont work" it does. There was the case, as steve says, that you couldnt share the broadband, but now you can, i use it on my phone to get my email (and its a non colour/ non picture phone) no complaints here :)

When i get a call from an AOL user I know my day just got longer...............

You won't lose any favourites, as you can easily copy them to a safe place on your drive. All you will need to change is who you connect with.

 

And wouldn't touch AOL if they paid me to surf.

that's It My Minds Made Up! Im Sackin' Aol. Whats Everyone Using Instead ???

Pipex do a good package with unlimited bandwidth for £23.44 a month, free setup and modem.

 

http://www.solo.pipex.net/xtreme-solutions/?service=solo500&PIPEXSESSID=6816db32db8a7e7fcc901fba99062d6b

Pipex do a good package with unlimited bandwidth for £23.44 a month, free setup and modem.

 

http://www.solo.pipex.net/xtreme-solutions/?service=solo500&PIPEXSESSID=6816db32db8a7e7fcc901fba99062d6b

 

 

Been on this for about 16 months,

No complaints what-so-ever.

:)

Blueyonder 3MB £50 a month

 

my downloads peak at around 375K/sec which is nice ;)

You can never get that F8cking software of ya system, and there wed browser software is shite

The problem you will have is identifying all the places you used your AOL email address and then changing that to your new address - it's a pain. Aside from that it's easy.

I was on AOL for 24 months and there security/virus sofware is pants. But as said if your new to the internet or computer illiterate its a good basis to start on!

 

Rich

Aol is grrreeeaaat!!!!!! Never had any probs, I couldnt believe what i was reading in this thread!!

I guess you all have tried Aol then?? You can only speak as you find afterall .

Ive been with them 3years and cant fault them, wouldnt want to change.

I'm a computer engineer and can say with hand on heart I have never met a happy AOL customer. Met 50+ people wanting it removed cos its causing errors or they want to change ISP but the software will not allow them to.

 

Sure there are happy people out there or they would have gone bust by now but unless your handy in editing the registry I wouldn't put it anywhere near your PC.