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Review by SNOMOMIK
Posted: 9.7 years ago
(review was emailed from domain aol.com)
 Cary,Mchenry,IL
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Dear DSL
I am interested in getting dsl in my home for 2 computers and I am less than
2 miles away from the CO how do I go about getting more info and options?
I live in Cary, IL 60013. My name is Mike Haber at 417 Mildred Ave My e-mail
is snomomik@aol.com.
waiting for reply Mike
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Review by RJGABLE
Posted: 9.7 years ago
(review was emailed from domain aol.com)
Sunnyvale,Santa Clara,CA
$41 per month (month by month)
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I have just been converted from a beta test site to AOL Plus service. It
took a month to get a time of install which was a bit long without service
since they pulled the plug on the beta testing at the end of the year.
Trying to get confirmation of the pending install date proved difficult since
no one at AOL could find the records of my account on frequent phone calls
the day before install, but finally someone knew where to ask and I got
confirmation. The Pac Bell installers came when promised and the install
went as usual-- a few difficulties 1) the new splitterless system discovered
an old telephone jack causing difficulty which was not noticed of course when
the splitter eliminated it from the data stream, luck prevailed and the
problem jack was not being used so they left it hanging open, 2) the AOL
software delivered with the modem is necessary even though it says it is
loading AOL 5.0 which, if you already have 5.0, you might believe it not
necessary to reinstall.
Unlike with the beta service where you had a static IP address you now have a
dynamic and have to long into AOL so that establishing a DSL connection takes
valuable time. Download time are OK but the main problem is the latency
involved in pings which amounts to 150 plus ms just to get to the first hop
to AOL. This will be problematical in game play which is the main use of the
system. Yet to be resolved issues are how to configure NAT with the AOL USB
DSL modem.
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Posted: 9.7 years ago
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Haverford,Montgomery,PA
$20 per month
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Hi,
AOL DSL uses Bell Atlantic in my area. I got set up more or less in 2 weeks
from the time I ordered the service. The first thing is they did not send me
the AOL Plus CD in the startup package when they sent me the modem. So I had
to wait another 7 days for that to come. In the meantime I installed the
SpeedStream 4060 external USB modem. Once I had the CD come to me, I tried
signing on and would keep getting the error "The data connection link was
terminated by the remote computer". Called AOL tech-support on a Sunday. They
made me reinstall a few things like the AOL Adapter and the Ivasion Winpoet
2.0 software and then put in a line problem report and said they would hear
something within the next 3 days.
Well next morning when I tried again, I was able to login!!!
I have tweaked the registry setting for DefaultRcvWindow based on sometings I
read at dslreports.com I have been averaging 450Kb-500Kb/s download. At times
I hang when "Establishing DSL connection..." in the begining of AOL, but then
restarting DSL from the Advanced Options of the SpeedStream modem status,
usually reconnects me.
I have been using this for a week now. More or less happy with the
performance. Theres howver one thing which I hate which is that at times,
even when I try to go to a fast site like yahoo.com, it will sit there with
an hourglass and then take upto a minute. Or if I am trying to download a
brokerage research report from multex.com from the browser with AOL, it will
take a long time and then suddenly come up with the web page. This does not
happen if I go through Internet explorer outside AOL.
Does anyone know why or is anyone else experiencing this?
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