"Wireless broadband" commercials

Jeez... they're all at it!

Have any ISPs been reported to Advertising Standards for this? The new
AOHell one is really taking the piss. No coincidence so many people are
left with the impression that wireless broadband is a different dsl
product.

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> Jeez... they're all at it!
>
> Have any ISPs been reported to Advertising Standards for this? The new
> AOHell one is really taking the piss. No coincidence so many people are
> left with the impression that wireless broadband is a different dsl
> product.
>

You know - I was just saying to my parents tonight how they're making it
sound like it's different product - different to ADSL - it's just a bit of
kit, the cheeky bar stewards.

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> Have any ISPs been reported to Advertising Standards for this? The new
> AOHell one is really taking the piss. No coincidence so many people are
> left with the impression that wireless broadband is a different dsl
> product.

It does seem to be misleading, implying that the whole caboodle is
wireless not that it actually connects to AOL and the rest of the
internet via ADSL over a copper phone line.

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
Graham Murray <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
> (E-Mail Removed) writes:
> > Have any ISPs been reported to Advertising Standards for this? The new
> > AOHell one is really taking the piss. No coincidence so many people are
> > left with the impression that wireless broadband is a different dsl
> > product.
>
> It does seem to be misleading, implying that the whole caboodle is
> wireless not that it actually connects to AOL and the rest of the
> internet via ADSL over a copper phone line.

Good luck. I complained to them about PCWorld's `dual core PC' ad, in which
they advertised it as a computer that can do two things at once, and got
nowhere.
--
SAm.

Sam Nelson wrote in
780lt3-(E-Mail Removed):

> In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
> Graham Murray <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
>> (E-Mail Removed) writes:
>>> Have any ISPs been reported to Advertising Standards for this? The
>>> new AOHell one is really taking the piss. No coincidence so many
>>> people are left with the impression that wireless broadband is a
>>> different dsl product.
>>
>> It does seem to be misleading, implying that the whole caboodle is
>> wireless not that it actually connects to AOL and the rest of the
>> internet via ADSL over a copper phone line.
>
> Good luck. I complained to them about PCWorld's `dual core PC' ad,
> in which they advertised it as a computer that can do two things at
> once, and got nowhere.

Turning to PC World's advert for wireless routers by Netgear, what is the
model/spec of the one that they are promoting? Is it an ADSL modem/router or
is it a cable modem which needs a separate modem? They don't make that
clear. The only Netgear router that I can see on PCW's site for about £80 is
a cable router. I wonder how many people will rush out and buy it, only to
find that it doesn't work with a conventional ADSL-enabled phone line?

"Sam Nelson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:780lt3-(E-Mail Removed)...
> In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
> Graham Murray <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
>> (E-Mail Removed) writes:
>> > Have any ISPs been reported to Advertising Standards for this? The new
>> > AOHell one is really taking the piss. No coincidence so many people are
>> > left with the impression that wireless broadband is a different dsl
>> > product.
>>
>> It does seem to be misleading, implying that the whole caboodle is
>> wireless not that it actually connects to AOL and the rest of the
>> internet via ADSL over a copper phone line.
>
> Good luck. I complained to them about PCWorld's `dual core PC' ad, in
> which
> they advertised it as a computer that can do two things at once, and got
> nowhere.

What annoys me is that they chose to illustrate it with two tasks that are
not processor intensive (downloading emails and uploading music or some such
guff).

And Intel's adverts for the pentium years ago saying it is better for the
internet - er, no, getting a 56K modem instead of a 33.6 one is what you
need for that...

Bob