Thinking of AOL

I'm thinking about switching to AOL. I was with them years ago on dial-up
and found them reliable - which was probably just as well, given their poor
technical support.

What are they like as an ADSL provider?

Also, the one thing that infuriated me about them was their failure to offer
a 'real' POP 3 email service (I have some vague memories of a hack that used
to allow this)

Do they still use that bloated proprietary email interface - any other
quirks or things I should be aware of?

Many thanks for your help.

"Cadbury's Finest" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm thinking about switching to AOL. I was with them years ago on dial-up
> and found them reliable - which was probably just as well, given their poor
> technical support.
>
> What are they like as an ADSL provider?
>
> Also, the one thing that infuriated me about them was their failure to offer
> a 'real' POP 3 email service (I have some vague memories of a hack that used
> to allow this)
>
> Do they still use that bloated proprietary email interface - any other
> quirks or things I should be aware of?
>
> Many thanks for your help.
>
>
It's a minimum of an 18 month contract even if you migrate in and
I believe payable in full if you leave early. Some of their packages
have a 24 month minimum term.

They ceased offering "unlimited" and use traffic managment, and I suspect
they are increasingly like TalkTalk given they are now owned by
craponewhorehause

They'd just added POP access when I left for Sky and allowed
IMAP acces for some time, but automatically deleted read emails after a few
days which made IMAP access rather pointless in my view. Better to
use gmail.

Technical support was the worst I've experienced.

"Mel" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Cadbury's Finest" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> I'm thinking about switching to AOL. I was with them years ago on
>> dial-up
>> and found them reliable - which was probably just as well, given their
>> poor
>> technical support.
>>
>> What are they like as an ADSL provider?
>>
>> Also, the one thing that infuriated me about them was their failure to
>> offer
>> a 'real' POP 3 email service (I have some vague memories of a hack that
>> used
>> to allow this)
>>
>> Do they still use that bloated proprietary email interface - any other
>> quirks or things I should be aware of?
>>
>> Many thanks for your help.
>>
>>
> It's a minimum of an 18 month contract even if you migrate in and
> I believe payable in full if you leave early. Some of their packages
> have a 24 month minimum term.
>
> They ceased offering "unlimited" and use traffic managment, and I suspect
> they are increasingly like TalkTalk given they are now owned by
> craponewhorehause
>
> They'd just added POP access when I left for Sky and allowed
> IMAP acces for some time, but automatically deleted read emails after a
> few
> days which made IMAP access rather pointless in my view. Better to
> use gmail.
>
> Technical support was the worst I've experienced.<<


A genuine thank you! - I had no idea that the spectacularly awful Carphone
Warehouse owned them! - that, alone, is enough to make me run away as fast
as my little legs can carry me

A similarity with 'Talk Talk' merely adds a few more maggots to the corpse!

Thank goodness for newsgroups.

"Cadbury's Finest" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm thinking about switching to AOL. I was with them years ago on dial-up
> and found them reliable - which was probably just as well, given their
> poor technical support.
>
> What are they like as an ADSL provider?
>
> Also, the one thing that infuriated me about them was their failure to
> offer a 'real' POP 3 email service (I have some vague memories of a hack
> that used to allow this)
>
> Do they still use that bloated proprietary email interface - any other
> quirks or things I should be aware of?
>
> Many thanks for your help.
>

Goto http://www.tuppencechange.co.uk and click on the box on the main page
or goto Links / Internet Broadband and click on the banner if you wnat a
good reliable English speaking and English call center based Internet
Provider.


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Cadbury's Finest wrote:

> I'm thinking about switching to AOL.

Why ?

Graham

the_constructor wrote:

> "Cadbury's Finest" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I'm thinking about switching to AOL. I was with them years ago on dial-up
> > and found them reliable - which was probably just as well, given their
> > poor technical support.
> >
> > What are they like as an ADSL provider?
> >
> > Also, the one thing that infuriated me about them was their failure to
> > offer a 'real' POP 3 email service (I have some vague memories of a hack
> > that used to allow this)
> >
> > Do they still use that bloated proprietary email interface - any other
> > quirks or things I should be aware of?
>
>
> Goto http://www.tuppencechange.co.uk and click on the box on the main page
> or goto Links / Internet Broadband and click on the banner if you wnat a
> good reliable English speaking and English call center based Internet
> Provider.

Plusnet are very far from the 'best broadband provider' despite what any hooky
customer surveys may say.

Graham

Cadbury's Finest wrote:

>> I believe payable in full if you leave early. Some of their packages
>> have a 24 month minimum term.

You *do* get a free laptop with the 24 month contract though!

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Abo

On Nov 14, 4:44 pm, "Cadbury's Finest"
<Iwannabebur...@thechocolatefactory.com> wrote:

> I'm thinking about switching to AOL.

Don't get involved.

Doug.

Doug Spinney wrote:

> On Nov 14, 4:44 pm, "Cadbury's Finest"
> <Iwannabebur...@thechocolatefactory.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm thinking about switching to AOL.
>
> Don't get involved.

My advice is to avoid all the large consumer ISPs. They are uniformly dreadful.

Graham

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:44:40 -0000, "Cadbury's Finest"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I'm thinking about switching to AOL. I was with them years ago on dial-up
>and found them reliable - which was probably just as well, given their poor
>technical support.
>
>What are they like as an ADSL provider?
>
>Also, the one thing that infuriated me about them was their failure to offer
>a 'real' POP 3 email service (I have some vague memories of a hack that used
>to allow this)
>
>Do they still use that bloated proprietary email interface - any other
>quirks or things I should be aware of?
>
>Many thanks for your help.
>

I have been ith AOL for around nine months and have experienced their
support through a house move and number change. They are excellent to
work with, no problems whatsoever. They have been more than helpful
every step of the way.I would be happy to recommend them. I have a 12
month contract for broadband silver at £9-99 per month. Excellent
value for money.

Ian