Any Oz comments on AOL as an ISP?
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Any Oz comments on AOL as an ISP?
I've been with ozemail for a couple of years; never had any problems at all. Always get through on first go, no disconnections, good speed.
But when they brought in unlimited access for $25 a month to compete with AOL, and didn't bother to extend the favour to regional areas, I abused them roundly but found I didn't have any choice but to stay with them.
Now I see AOL have a connection in my city (Mackay); unlimited for $25 sounds great, but I don't want to change to slow speeds, disconnections, engaged lines etc.
Any comments from AOL users at all, particularly regional users, would be appreciated.
But when they brought in unlimited access for $25 a month to compete with AOL, and didn't bother to extend the favour to regional areas, I abused them roundly but found I didn't have any choice but to stay with them.
Now I see AOL have a connection in my city (Mackay); unlimited for $25 sounds great, but I don't want to change to slow speeds, disconnections, engaged lines etc.
Any comments from AOL users at all, particularly regional users, would be appreciated.
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Sorry I can't provide current info on AOL, but when they were setting up in Oz I was a beta tester. There were several problems at release of the service.
1/ They did not support any email client except the half broken thing they supplied. This meant I could not retrieve email from another ISP whilst connected through AOL
2/ They did not offer a shell account so I could not telnet.
3/ Their supplied browser was horrible and slow, but you could use any other browser if you wanted
4/ Most important for me is not a tech issue, but the deal for beta testers was a month of free connection after the service went live. This was canned after one week. I think the AOL ethics suck big time.
It's up to you of course but I'd say give 'em a miss!
Feeton
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Once I was VERY good, now I'm very good, once!
[This message has been edited by Feeton Terrafirma (edited 26 November 2000).]
1/ They did not support any email client except the half broken thing they supplied. This meant I could not retrieve email from another ISP whilst connected through AOL
2/ They did not offer a shell account so I could not telnet.
3/ Their supplied browser was horrible and slow, but you could use any other browser if you wanted
4/ Most important for me is not a tech issue, but the deal for beta testers was a month of free connection after the service went live. This was canned after one week. I think the AOL ethics suck big time.
It's up to you of course but I'd say give 'em a miss!
Feeton
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Once I was VERY good, now I'm very good, once!
[This message has been edited by Feeton Terrafirma (edited 26 November 2000).]
