Internet Providers And Connection Problems

AOL software is spawn of the devil - always has been. Run in the other direction as fast as you can!

It can also be incredibly difficult to remove fully and properly. Often the fastest way to get rid of it is to wipe the disk & resinstall win-doze (after backing up your data & ensuring you have all your windows & software disks & licence keys available of course!).

I'm on a Virgin Media 4MB cable connection. Its been very solid for the 4 years I've had it - but then I think I'm still the only connection on an entire cabinet in the street - so this segment of the network is not exactly loaded

 

AOL is a proper pain in the rrse...but since my computer bud put me on a wireless thingummyjig I can just go straight to Internet Explorer without having to start the demon that is AOL...might be worth a punt???

 

much as i loath bt, their internet package is pretty good

 

I'm tempted to go back to them as with Orange i have interruptions virtually every day and now some of my regularly visited sites i can't even get up at all!

All internet and computers i hate with a venemous passion

 

flooding is the new excuse at the moment when i was buying from europe it was the container ship that ran aground that was the problem then

 

With the interruptions its been awhile but with the lack of access to certain sites, that is more recent.

 

did you pay for th goods this time

 

unlikely

 

I have had Tiscali for a number of years without any major hassles. My father has eventually got rid of AOL - truly awful experience.

As an aside when I bought my Dell pc it had Tiscali, BT and AOL packages already installed - the idea being that you could fire up whatever one you wanted. What I found was that if you attempted to connect over the web to Tiscali or BT to sign up, the process kept being killed. Monitoring the task mangler revealed that the AOL software would launch every minute or so - killing the connection to Tiscali or BT... once I wiped AOL from the pc I was able to connect to Tiscali.

 

AOL HAAAAAAAAAA i hate them i cant get rid of them and their service is kraup, Pete i have been having similar problems to you

 

AOL is a joke, I hate the software and have had numerous problems. It amazes me that having changed banking details with them something like 8 times, they still dont seen to be able to bill the right account. Idiots.

Connection wise, I always used to find it worse during the early evening and during the school holidays. I've now gone wireless with them (free router etc, and its simple to set up) and have relatively few problems. I'd recommend this route if you're happy to stay with AOL.

One realy pet peave is that you cant link up you AOL sig-name to an e-mail package. What a joke!

 

Guys, don't hang around sign up with BT, I have been using BT Internet since 1996 and now use BT Connect. I have 3 DSL lines and very, very rarely have any problems at all.
Mind you I do work for BT's Internet albeit doing the abuse management stuff So by signing up with BT you can help support my motoring addiction
Cheers
Nick