Who of you surfs the net with AOL?

[Timexwatch]

My parents still have AOL on top of our Time-Warner Cable connection. I think they keep AOL because they don't want to lose the e-mail address...

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
BT dialup is far far better than AOL. Sorry. It kicks you off after 2 hours, but at least you can get back on again, and you have a decent speed whilst online.

AOL was still the better choice for me when I had dial up, I could leave Kazaa on all night downloading ebooks, music and other, shall we say 'specialist', material, also I was playing a lot of CivIIMP at the time and getting kicked off every two hours was no good for that either

I switched from BT to AOL after they charged me 50p a minute to access their helpline to fix a problem that turned out to be at their end and refused to re-imburse me!

[JohnT]

I pay for both broadband and AOL. Broadband for home, AOL for portability.

[Atahualpa]

I had ISDN once when Broadband was not available. Charges were real high because we were surfin and playin a lot (counter-strike mainly).
The we got Broadband (ADSL), though our ISP (the one who resold its lines and connections to every other ISP here) thought 1GB of downloaded data should be enough, everything you download atop of that is charged. That sucked pretty bad as 1GB is next to nothing. With lot of control we managed to get around 1.2-1.4GB per Month but we weren't very happy with this offer.
Since April 2002 there is now a 4GB limit and they disable your connection for the rest of the month if you hit 4.5 GB (you are warned though when reaching the 4GB border and you can check your status anytime through their website).

4GB are okay for me. I typically use around 3GB per Month.
On top of that Datalimit they disconnect you every 8 hours.

If you think this Broadband connection sucks then you are right in that it is not really a broadband connection. But since it fits for me I do not complain.
The speed is okay too 1Mbit/256kbit (with some special agreement, though they might downsize me in the near future).
That they disconnect me every 8 hours is also not much of a problem. My homegrown linux router cares for a fast reconnect.

Btw, does AOL work with Operating Systems like *BSD or Linux?

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[Gatekeeper]

I have a broadband connection courtesy of a cable TV company that's expanded into not only the Internet, but now phone service as well.

Gatekeeper

[Victor Galis]

Been using it since 1994. How good it is depends on where you are. At some points, the connection was really ****ty, and when I use it in Georgia, it can't seem to keep me online while I try to play a MMORPG during peak hours (works fine off peak). In California, I have no complaints about it. I keep it for the e-mail address and because it provides me with an access number almost anywhere in the country.

I also use a variety of broadband connections depending on where I happen to be, so I can't say I use AOL nearly as much as I used to.

[devilmunchkin]

I'm now using AOL and it screws up ALL the time..or shuts down....or just won't boot up....and it's slow...

[Dis]

I have used AOL in the past

Once you go broadband, you cannot go back.

[Victor Galis]

Originally posted by Dissident
I have used AOL in the past

Once you go broadband, you cannot go back.

, given a choice between broadband and my AOL connection here, it really is a tough choice. The broadband has the bandwidth, but it seems to have massive lag spikes that make it impossible to use for streaming media or multiplayer gaming. The AOL connection on the other hand is perfectly reliable, but slow. So for casual web browsing or downloads the broadband, gaming (which I haven't much time for right now) AOL. Obviously this isn't ideal... I miss my college connection with is mostly reliable *and* relatively fast. (It got really fast after our Office of Information Technology suggested we all select the turn off file sharing with other users option in Kazaa). The sad thing is, the day after that mass e-mail, everyone's connection worked more than twice as fast for downloading and had a lot fewer lag spikes for gaming. AAll it took to fix the problem was one mass e-mail .

[Skanky Burns]

I would never subject my poor computer to the evil that is AOL.

[Dis]

how is it they have AOL in England? that seems to make no sense

[Rasbelin]

AOL? No, thanks.

[Kramerman]

I used AOL for a year up until a little more than a year ago... I was not satisfied with it at all. But im a hardcore internet junky... if i wasnt, then i wouldnt need broadband and im sure AOL would have been fine.