Jas
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Registered: 13th Oct 04
Location: Mid Wales
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For a few months ive tried setting up my wireless network...
We signed up to AOL silver and recieved our free router...
upon browsing aol help I discovered this
What are the minimum system requirements for home networking on AOL?
AOL Broadband Gold or Platinum
An AOL supported modem router
A BT phone line
Windows 98 (Second Edition), 2000, ME, or Windows XP* (SP1 and above)
*Recommended
At least a 233MHz Pentium processor or equivalent
At least 128MB system memory (RAM)
175MB of free hard disk space
A wireless adapter for each computer you wish to connect wirelessly
A spare Network Interface Card port (Ethernet Interface or NIC) on each computer you wish to connect with Ethernet cable
An Ethernet cable for each additional computer (often only one is included in the box)
so why give a router with the silver package if it wont work?
 AO'HELL!
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Marc
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Registered: 11th Aug 02
Location: York
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AOL is shit.
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Jas
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Registered: 13th Oct 04
Location: Mid Wales
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quote:
Originally posted by Marc
AOL is shit.
agreed!
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Cosmo
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Registered: 29th Mar 01
Location: Im the real one!
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to encourage you to join upto Gold and pay more to them a month, good business sense IMO.
You sure you can get round it anyway?
BTW Aol is shite.
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jamied
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Registered: 27th Oct 03
Location: Marbella,Spain Drives: C63
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aol are for amateurs imo
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Marc
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Registered: 11th Aug 02
Location: York
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Connie was fit though, from York, used to go to Manner school. Got beat up in London a few years back
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AdZ9
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Registered: 14th Apr 06
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all my mates get AOL coz they know fuck all about net etc, and wonder why its shit countless times i've had to go fix there computers, all infested with dell/pcworld shit 
i been on BT since i started broadband many moons ago, got 8mb at home
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Liam
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Registered: 19th Jan 06
Location: Stafford
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NTL for the win 
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Jas
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Registered: 13th Oct 04
Location: Mid Wales
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I dont pay phoneline so I didnt have a choice in the matter
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Ojc
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Registered: 14th Nov 00
Location: Reading: Drives : Clio 197
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I have AOL for the past 5 years and have never ever ever once had a problem with it, recently they upgraded me to the Platinum service 8mb Broadband and only have to pay the same as what I was paying in 2001 £15.99
EMAO
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AdZ9
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Registered: 14th Apr 06
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i dont pay for mine either my old man does! but i move out in 4 weeks with 2 friends so ill have to sort my own out then! was looking at the possibility with the new Sky broadband as we will be getting sky, but at the moment i haven't heard good things about it
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Jas
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Registered: 13th Oct 04
Location: Mid Wales
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platinum service for £15.99 
ive been looking on aol and.....
gold service is £24.99
and platinum at £34.99
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AdZ9
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Registered: 14th Apr 06
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a month? wat do u get for that? our 8mb is cheaper than £34.99 and it isnt 1% as shit as aol!
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Jas
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Registered: 13th Oct 04
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£34.99 a month for 8mb
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AdZ9
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Registered: 14th Apr 06
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oh right was gonna say if it was only for 2mb then u better cancel haha
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Ojc
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Registered: 14th Nov 00
Location: Reading: Drives : Clio 197
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I rang them up as I have gradually upgraded through the years and I wanted wireless I was already on Gold but didn't have wireless so they just upgraded me to Platinum and sent me the router and because I am a loyal customer didn't increase the price.
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Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
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You can get 8mb from a number of providers for 15pm, many of whom won't require you to install crap proprietary software.
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drax
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Registered: 5th Feb 05
Location: Sittingbourne, Kent
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AOL is fucking shite, their internet is cached from their own servers, which results in hurrendous lag, which is what people suffer when playing games on AOL.
Their internet often cocks up, and they use a bulky peice of software and shoddy browser for no fucking reason.
Why bother.
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willay
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Registered: 10th Nov 02
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quote:
Originally posted by Ian
You can get 8mb from a number of providers for 15pm, many of whom won't require you to install crap proprietary software.
FYI - you dont need their software, I've configured a Cisco 837 ADSL router to use an AOL connection for remote trading. Worked fine 
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drax
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Registered: 5th Feb 05
Location: Sittingbourne, Kent
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Bt broadband is up to 8 mb and £26.99 per month with the first 3 months £22.99
never had a problem, ever.
even better, get skybroadband, but it has to come through bt anyway
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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skybroadband doesn't have to come through bt.
If your exhange is local loop unbundled its all sky.
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WATSON
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Registered: 16th Jun 05
Location: Fife, Scotland
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I bet most of you that have posted hasnt had AOL 
I was with AOL for around 6 year now on the platinum package and there wasnt one problem that i had all that time i had been with them 
I dont see the problem with AOL i know a good few that are with AOL and have had no problem with them
I had to change to tiscali as i was paying to much with AOL but now going back to AOL as i have found that AOL have been the best broadband i have been with 
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drax
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Registered: 5th Feb 05
Location: Sittingbourne, Kent
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at the end of the day who owns the phone lines it comes through?
quote:
Originally posted by John
skybroadband doesn't have to come through bt.
If your exhange is local loop unbundled its all sky.
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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I think sky owns the line 
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drax
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Registered: 5th Feb 05
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Okay, who owns the exchanges I mean
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