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- squidmarks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3WTH? Is digg censoring acronyms too? WTF?!
- ACalcutt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1ummm...that article left something out... if broadband is not avalibled to you...you can request a lower priced dial up...
http://www.marketingvox.com/archives/2006/02/22/aol_dialup_or_broadband_same_price/
"Subscribers are being notified by email that they can get high speed for the same price as dialup. Those who can't get or don't want broadband can request lower-priced plans, including an unadvertised offering of about $18 with a one-year commitment."
if you do have brodband avalible to you...and you are stupid enought to be using aol...then you should upgrade to the broadband version - JasonPrini, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12 way satelitte is an option in rural areas in Canada
- matts0344, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Once broadband started getting popular years ago I knew AOL was in trouble. Who would pay 20 something dollars a month for that crap?
And who the hell would want Verizon with AOL stuff slapped on to it?
AOL sucks. - Jammerdelray, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Those who say die aol are clueless....no aol means no more winamp or netscape which are both very good products....no more aim....no more aol explorer...no more great free content from aol.com.....etc etc etc.
Aol is changing which should be applauded!
Maybe with aol going all broadband eventually they will drop their aol client for something more like Earthlinks setup but with all their great content. - chemman14, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1im so glad i convinced my parents to drop the aol dialup in favor of dsl a few years ago
***** i hated aol with a ***** PASSION - xLiKx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1haha, that makes sense, die AOL
- jwalk81980, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah, that's the first time I've seen a WTH. WTF?
- detrate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1AOL... sucks? Why do you even need them? I'm going to pay my cable provider AND a 'old news' ISP...
hint: The people that give you the connection.. give you an email address to ;o) - skidrowgirl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I am stuck with AOL for a few reasons.
It came pre-installed with my Dell computer and is practically impossible to completely remove since they take over your computer and change your settings to prevent other ISPs from running.
I had Bellsouth a while back and ended up returning to AOL because their bullying software prevented Bellsouth from working.
AOL just raised my bill and now I am paying $30.90 for THE slowest service with the worst freezes every single day. My CD player on my PC and my floppy decided to quit working recently,so I cannot install another ISP's CD and leave AOL.
Downloading another ISP's software online using this slow AOL connection is not even possible as it would take several days straight of being online and never signing off. Does anyone here have any advice as to how to get rid of AOL?
Should I take my machine to a specialist and have them completely remove AOL,fix my CD player and install another ISP? I am sick to death of being chained to AOHell and don't personally feel their crap was even worth $28.90.
At about 31 bucks now, it is almost unaffordable so I want it gone!!! HELP!!!! - kloud213, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i livein rural indiana and there are so many diffrent wireless providers there is no need for dial-up anymore. 768k is way better than 56k. im glad i live close enough to town to get cable.
- zonk3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0aol sucks indeed. i have to use it where i work for various, stupid reasons. i recently checked to see if i could get dsl and discovered that while we have at&t phone service (and at&t recently merged with sbc) i can't get dsl because i'm over the 18,000ft distance from the local co. however, i'm within walking distance of the local sbc co, but we'd have to pay $65, per line (4 lines total) to convert them to sbc lines (remember, at&t and sbc have merged but they still operate as separate companies and will continue to do so for a long time) if i wanted to keep the dsl and phone lines on the same bill. so right now we are stuck with aol dialup. it's a little company that nickles and dimes and paying $260 for essentially nothing isn't going to fly... at least not yet.
- eatdontsendspam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This finally convinced my parents to get rid of them!
- nytechy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"39.99, FIOS, 15 megabits/ 2 megabits"
I pay $55 a month, upto 30 mbps (down) / 2 mbps (up)
I usually get between 25 - 28 mb/s down. - slamm6, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hey, quit slamming dial-up until there is a cheaper alternative. Do you think everyone wants to pay $50 a month just to access the internet ? OK, I do, but that's beside the point. There will always be casual users and to force them to succumb to broadband at its currently ridiculous price is like forcing a Hummer on a little old lady who only drives on Sundays. Ease up and think about the common man for once !
When broadband gets down to $25 a month, then the transition will happen naturally. - kolop1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"There are some reasons to use AOL broadband. Mainly if you have children. Some people are just used to the way AOL works. You have to remember that most people are quite lost on computers and AOL makes some things easier."
Parents should monitor their children. If you mus use an internet tool you can use NetNannyit is only 40$ year. That is much cheaper than putting using AOL on you broadband. I still think if the best way to prevent your children from going to unwanted sites you have to monitor them. Most kids today know how to circumvent any program that would be used to stop them. - droford, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well, I pay $10 a month for JUNO dialup. I guess I should look forward to that going up in price? Its been $10 for more than 5 years.
Oh and Comcast doesn't run out where I live. I still have really old telephone lines that barely support 24000 bps on a regular basis. I have Directv, but I refuse to put the kind of money they want upfront in equipment, not to mention $70 a month for their service. Im not touching it with a 10 foot pole given all the rumors about how the service might keep running. The writings on the wall with Directv's sat internet service.. I just got an email from Directv about them wanting to get me to sign up with DSL. I would in a heartbeat, but there isn't a DSL line within at least 20 miles of me.
I was thinking I was going to luck out because theres been a wireless broadband co-op that started last year which I signed up for, but the idiots in my county council blocked them from being able to operate it in the county I live in because they don't want the antenna towers all over the place, although they'll gladly allow any two bit company to set up a cell phone tower anywhere they want (I've literally got a cell phone tower in my front yard although not on my property). Go figure.
So I'll keep trudging away on Juno. - DenZ88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0AOL is a gallon of *****, for what its really worth.
People who use AOL (who have no other options, of course), wanna kno how to save money?
Call up AOL and threaten to cancel your account... theyll probably throw in some extra deals to prevent you from cancelling (and if you want to cancel, good luck..) - wayjer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@ACalcutt
Good Info. - digitaldivider, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You all lay claim to AOL being the spawn of satan, but what about comcast? Here where I live (detroit) comcast is the only broadband solution available (sattelite doesn't count, you can't do crap with it!)) sure they spam you with the promotional deals "cable internet for 20 bucks a month! free internet security! or some other such rot. But after the 6-month honeymoon, BOOM! you're cost for internet just skyrocketed to 60.00 a month for 4-6 megs down (shared access, mind you) and 384-768 up. As for pc protection--spybot search and destroy, microsoft antispyware, windows firewall, and avg free edition along with automatic updates are all free and they work wonders. WTF is wrong with this picture? yep you guessed it. Comcast has no competion here. but oh... oh wait, yes they do. dial-up. this is the only reason Comcast isn't getting hit with anti-trust out here. and because of it, we get reamed up the ass. As much as I hate verizon's cell phone service right now, given the chance to move to their FIOS network, I would do so instantaneously.
- digitaldivider, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0by the way, I'm sorry if I sortta moved away from the main topic.. but aol isn't the only isp that takes advantage of the fact that there's no competition near them.
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http://new-york-dating.howtobreakbetterinpool.com/ ... - JerriKay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If there is anyone left stuck having to use AOL Dial-Up now might be the time to finally get off of that train!
- kolop1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0 If you need to use dial up why use AOL. If you have broadband all ready why would you use AOL on top of it? Everything AOL has you can find on the web.
- SteveR4376, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Many people who use AOL dialup only use it because they can't get broadband where they live. Raising their dialup price to match the broadband price won't make broadband access magically appear in their area, it will simply raise their access cost. Great job AOL, now you'll piss off your hardcore customers who have been perfectly happy inside your little AOL "walled garden."
- binarypower, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What is this AOL?
- emh924a, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0aol is right it will encouage people to use broadband and leave aol at the same time
- MrC539, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Crazy...right when I clicked this article an AOL highspeed commercial came on TV.
- odin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0why is there an AOL story on digg? I thought this was a tech site.
- scootinger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This really is BS. I remember when AOL dial-up used to be $20/month (back when my parents used AOL)....then $22/month....then $24/month....now $26/month. Costs for technology (and related services I suppose) are supposed to go DOWN over time, not up! AOL just does this because they know too many people will stay with them whether or not they irrationally raise the price.
- System84, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Raising Dial-up prices seems kind of odd seeing as though it will only motivate more to go with broadband. So bascially they want to take care of their remaning customer base and bankrupt themselves as a company totally.
- funkytaco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Good. AOL software should be a jumping point for new Internet users at best. My friends who still use AOL since the 90's get spyware all the time and are the reason these worms, and probably a good reason these botnets are so common (I work in a data center).
Educate yourself. Get off AOL. - royeiror, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I personally wouldn't mind much the death of AOL appart from winamp i don't use any of it's products, and as someone stated previously... they do mess up computers when installed, so whenever i get a new computer for some fixes i get rid if tat crap ASAP, anyway it' doens't work in mexico so what's the case?...
i was just remembering that the Ad where a guy is explaining AOL to this other guy, where he dumps a scoop of jelly or chilli on top of his sandwich is hillarious, but too bad that for all the money you save for getting rid of AOL you could get NOD32 and anice little firewall for those protection needs, and few people do so... anyway whay haven't all people migrated to free e-mail? there are way to many providers to stick with crappy fixed addresses of ISP's
oh waht the hell, well good luck to you people who are stuck with AOL, i feel for you... but maybe you could set up some nice Wi-Fi with directional antenas from a place that has a clear view of the other antena... maybe i imagine things to be way to easy, but you people have to rebel against crappy internet providers - Flagg3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is a brilliant move actually. AOL is now offering to let people upgrade to broadband for free. $26 is a fortune for dial up, but more than 15 million people are willing pay it. Know why? They like it. It's simple, it's easy, they don't want to switch. Forget getting them to change their e-mail address, I have set up my relatives computers to default to the AOL homepage, and have AIM load automatically, trying to wean them off of AOL. They still open the AOL client to surf the Internet. As much as you or I don't understand it, non technical people simply prefer AOL. This move gives them the final nudge to move to broadband. $26 is too much for dial up, but it's a fair price for broadband. (Yes, it's still more expensive than the $15 basic DSL offerings from some providers, but it's still relatively inexpensive.)
I can finally get my relatives to upgrade. If AOL had been smart enough to do something like this back when they first merged with Time Warner, they wouldn't have hemorrhaged so many users to begin with. I'd be willing to bet that if they market this properly, you will actually see their subscriber numbers start to INCREASE again for the first time in years. I'll stick with my 30/5 FIOS for $55 per month, but you'd be surprised how many people will. - DarkCloud14, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hey... you guys wanna know something sad?
I'M STILL STUCK WITH DAIL-UP AOL
Dude, it sucks, and for some reason I can't get my mom to change it T_T
You know what's worse? it's AOL 5.0 for some reason my mom doesn't wanna upgrade... - sophiaperennis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0AOL can make more extra money on $25 DSL, especially regarding their premium services, which they can't offer on the old $23 dial-up.
- MindTrigger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0
As far as AOL for Broadband, many cable providers try to shove AOL down your throat when you sign up for high speed. I've run into many people who thought they had to have AOL with their cable connection to make it all work. Cable companies seem to make it easy for them to believe it too. - cualexander, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0AOL came free with my Timewarner Roadrunner Account. I had to call them to set it up because I saw on a commerical that it was free. So I called them and they gave me a free AOL account.
The $25 broadband price they speak of is probably like 256k Broadband. I pay $45/month for 6mbps, so $25 for 256k wouldn't be worth my time really.
So I pay $45 a month for 6mbps with AOL. $26 for Dialup would seem an insane amount to pay for such a huge decrease in speed, not to mention factor in the extra line if you don't want to tie things up. - speel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0they would b better off just providing it for free and just having like adsense all over
- nene7070, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"WTH? Is digg censoring acronyms too? WTF?!"
I believe he didnt want to mean "what the f***"... he ment "what the hell" - wayjer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@nene
That is most correct! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Whats AOL? Oh...do they even still exist?
- wayjer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@darkcloud14
Reminds me when my mom did not want to upgrade our 286 for a Pentium 1, I feel your pain! - tastypastry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I just got my uncle off of AOL and on DSL. He's loving it so far. But my Mom is a whole different story, she has high speed cable but still uses AOL. I tell her over and over how AOL sucks but shes had it for so long and doesnt want to lose her bookmarks and her emails.
- expensix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That is kinda what the pay phone companies did. Everybody bought cell-phones, so pay phones increased their prices.
- lsrccrd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0unfortunately, my family uses AOL dial-up and there is no broadband options available at my house except pricey satellite internet. thats what I get for living with my parents...
- siouxmoux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Gee just in time for AOHell the raise their monthly fee to $26 bucks a mouth for mom to dump this ten years behind the times 90's 56k dial up for Real DSL. She now pays $12.99 a mouth for 1.5 Mbps/384 Kbps net access from ATT.
- thenativeraver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0[nelson voice]
~Ha Ha~ - endurancegeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0As much as I hate AOL, it's basically my only option. I don't live in an area where broadband is available. Brandonhines: I want them to kill dial up too, but only when broadband is affordable and available to everyone.
- ogletree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There are some reasons to use aol broadband. Mainly if you have children. Some people are just used to the way AOL works. You have to remember that most people are quite lost on computers and AOL makes some things easier.
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