Author Topic: AOL reply (Read 5634 times)

Dark Knight · « **on:** September 04, 2007, 07:17:49 PM »

To those poor souls like myself who use AOL and find some site time out.
I complained about it say's we where the only people that had this problem

Here part of their reply :-

We are experiencing a temporary problem with this issue and our technical team is already working to fix the problem as soon as possible. We apologise for the inconvenience caused and we look forward for your co-operation in this regard. Please be rest assured that there is nothing wrong with your AOL software. We all are facing this problem.

We all are facing this problem. Not if we switch servers !
They do give me a tip, email me if you want it. $:-\$

Best tip I can give is use FIREFOX

webmaster · « **Reply #1 on:** September 04, 2007, 07:22:43 PM »

We did tell you that weeks ago lol!

I've been with aol for so many years and its just the hassel of changing my primary email addy that keeps me with them. However I got a fab deal this year after I said I was going to go elsewhere.

£9.99 for 8mb BB and free UK national and weekend calls. Thats a £20 drop from what I had been paying

Paul-Self · « **Reply #2 on:** September 04, 2007, 08:04:46 PM »

ive been with aol since about 1999 with 56k and then updated to broadband then they chucked in a ton of xtrea freebies 2mb broadband 4mb broadband then 8mb broadband i only use their email address and use firefox as browser and dont use their messenging system or anything

i had no problems with them

carlgreen · « **Reply #3 on:** September 04, 2007, 08:29:51 PM »

yeh i have had aol since i got a computer and had 56k but now they chuck loadsa stuff in free and im lucky as i have managed to b online without having to sign on aol everytime

so i am always online, But really i have had no probs with them

carl

Drezta · « **Reply #4 on:** September 04, 2007, 08:41:42 PM »

i never had aol

but i do still remember about a year ago still having dial-up. gods! that was bad. 3.9 broadband and FF2.0 later and the web seems cool now

webmaster · « **Reply #5 on:** September 04, 2007, 08:43:55 PM »

ooohhh the dial up tones they were the worst

Drezta · « **Reply #6 on:** September 04, 2007, 09:04:34 PM »

i still have nightmares

and the way that if you were downloading anything it seemed that if you looked away for even a second the connection would fail, it would auto disconnect or the % would drop by half (even on o%)

webmaster · « **Reply #7 on:** September 04, 2007, 09:05:48 PM »

Im waiting until someone on here says "whats dial up?" thats when Im going to feel old

steve76 · « **Reply #8 on:** September 04, 2007, 09:27:28 PM »

i think we all know what dial up is right

.. your still young naz, anyone with a z in their name must surely be cool enough to be considered young?.. your hip right?

steve.

Drezta · « **Reply #9 on:** September 04, 2007, 09:27:54 PM »

you don't need to be old, i just had harsh parents but i can see why being old helps it leaves some deep scars

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people who had dial-up should have been given some kind of victims support or something and maybe Amnesty international should have gone on a campaign about it as well because it was worse than torture

sprog · « **Reply #10 on:** September 04, 2007, 09:46:48 PM »

Don't go with Tiscali, my net's been down 2 weeks instead of 2 hours.
First it was their fault, then they decided it was BT, BT said it was Tiscali, tiscali said 8-10 days and I'd have net back, 12 days go by, then they decide it's the router, router people say "nooooo, it's tiscali", tiscali say "noooo, it's the router", router people go "oh yeah, it is us" and list about a gazillion things I'd already done and tried, and finally got it to work by.... installing old firmware on the router

rickbicker26 · « **Reply #11 on:** September 04, 2007, 10:39:18 PM »

Naz i think a majority of us will feel old if someone was to ask what a floppy disk drive is

Jason · « **Reply #12 on:** September 04, 2007, 10:40:30 PM »

Surely it's the router you should be complaining about Sprog

I moaned for ages about my Tiscali BB speed and that it kept going off or disconecting me

Then I ran a new line from the main BT box in my house directly to the router and sudenly I've got 4 times the speed and totaly reliable so it was my fault all along (and BT's)

Now I am a Tiscali fan 2 meg almost 24-7

Jason · « **Reply #13 on:** September 04, 2007, 10:45:33 PM »

Old you lot don't know the meaning of old

I loaded programs with punch cards at school , used tape for backups and somewhere I still have some 5 1/4 drives and disks

Oh and a 386 in the loft did have a 286 but threw it out

I still use a hand cranked pre war singer sewing machine

anyone older

webmaster · « **Reply #14 on:** September 04, 2007, 10:46:29 PM »

Thanks Jason

I feel nice and young

Sx Nutta · « **Reply #15 on:** September 04, 2007, 11:35:27 PM »

I had AOL 56k dial-up internet when I first started off, and then changed it for Blueyonder aka Virgin Media. I found a 12k modem card in my workshop the other day, not sure why it was there, may have been my mate working on a machine!

sprog · « **Reply #16 on:** September 04, 2007, 11:50:10 PM »

Quote from: Jason on September 04, 2007, 10:40:30 PM

Surely it's the router you should be complaining about Sprog

Yeah, but it's the fact they sent me round and round in circles (you never get to speak to the same person again) before deciding that it wasn't their problem

webmaster · « **Reply #17 on:** September 04, 2007, 11:55:55 PM »

thats with most providers pretty useless at support...

I phoned aol last week as I was only getting half the speed I should and they told me it was becuase my router couldn't connect to my wifi card lol

But I was getting half the speed duh - I never said I wasnt getting no speed!

tundraH · « **Reply #18 on:** September 05, 2007, 06:21:32 AM »

14.4kbps modems kicked ass! lol.

For some reason I still get a chubby when ever I hear the old dialtones......

Locky · « **Reply #19 on:** September 05, 2007, 10:40:34 AM »

So for the people on AOL (DK etc)....

am I right in thinking that the certain sites you cant access with the AOL browser (I think www.capitalbocking.co.uk was one of them) you can actually get to using FireFox?

If so, then thats purely a problem with their browser and they should hire some better |337 haxors to code their software - or better yet do what BT do and stick Firefox on their install cd

sprog · « **Reply #20 on:** September 05, 2007, 12:15:32 PM »

Quote from: Uncle Matt! on September 05, 2007, 10:40:34 AM

am I right in thinking that the certain sites you cant access with the AOL browser (I think www.capitalbocking.co.uk was one of them) you can actually get to using FireFox?

If so, then thats purely a problem with their browser and they should hire some better |337 haxors to code their software - or better yet do what BT do and stick Firefox on their install cd

Agreed, AOL Browser is utterly useless.
But AOL will never provide you with Firefox because...
AOL = America Off-Line = They make lots of money from their browser software
FireFox = Everyone Online = Free, so AOL don't make any money at all as they are not allowed to sell it to you, so they would have to drop their prices

webmaster · « **Reply #21 on:** September 05, 2007, 05:17:50 PM »

yeah cant get any of ur sites Matt - I'm sure I used to b able to get ur welshbockers one b4 but cant b certain.

Locky · « **Reply #22 on:** September 05, 2007, 08:15:55 PM »

lol that totally nuts considering the welsh bockers site is using software that is compliant with all web browsers.

Oh well, AOL users miss out

webmaster · « **Reply #23 on:** September 05, 2007, 08:21:03 PM »

its not a prob really FF or IE do the job for me I only switch on the aol software 4 emails

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Author Topic: AOL reply (Read 5634 times)

Dark Knight