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"Looking forward to playing online?? not if you have AOL"

Looking forward to playing online?? not if you have AOL, yes neither xbox live or the gamecube modem adapters are compatible with the worlds no1 (apparently) ISP. AOL do not let other software access their internet connections, and so if you have AOL you cant use it to go online.
also the guy i spoke to at the tech centre informed me, off the record, that they wont allow it because the size of AOL, means that the ping rate is really high and so gaming would be too slow, becuae of this even if you have broadband they wont let the console modems connect to their service.

so do i get rid of AOL, which i think is great for regular internet stuff, just so i can play online????

Looking forward to playing online?? not if you have AOL, yes neither xbox live or the gamecube modem adapters are compatible with the worlds no1 (apparently) ISP. AOL do not let other software access their internet connections, and so if you have AOL you cant use it to go online.
also the guy i spoke to at the tech centre informed me, off the record, that they wont allow it because the size of AOL, means that the ping rate is really high and so gaming would be too slow, becuae of this even if you have broadband they wont let the console modems connect to their service.

so do i get rid of AOL, which i think is great for regular internet stuff, just so i can play online????

AOL are crap. There are so many restrictions on AOL users, I don't know why anyone uses them.

Whitestripes wrote:
> AOL are crap. There are so many restrictions on AOL users, I don't
> know why anyone uses them.

Because its easy for the less technically minded and the technophobes etc.
I recommended them to my mum because it means that I have to sort out less trivial problems for her.

There's nothing technical about BT or Freeserve or anyone else.

I've got AOL but I'm moving house soon and intend on getting a new ISP.

AOL's utter sh*t, it's slow and it always cuts off.

Whitestripes wrote:
> There's nothing technical about BT or Freeserve or anyone else.

I know that, you know that.

She doesn't, she finds AOLs interfaces easy to understand and she can ring the lovely Irish young men up if she has any problems.

AOL are rubbish. The limit you to their internet, which is pants anyway, and that broadband ad really annoyes me. 'Where else can you get all this?'

Er, try some other not so annoying ISP, and then the Internet. Mongs.

I have Freeserve Anytime on this connection, but my dad has AOL, and thats where the GC is. Damn it.

All i do for Freeserve is double click on the IE icon.

Done.

apart from this AOL are great, its so easy to use, cheap, reliable and theres no limit on your useage like with BT, the key words and tobar which loads up are great, but its just the way they dont let other doftware use thier conenction which annoys me, just means i probably wont be using the cube online now/

My AOL is faster than my freeserve connection, and faster than the ntl: connection people on my road have.
It's reliable and never cuts me off.