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 Review by Rob A 
UPDATED: 4.4 years ago
member for 4.8 years, 1737 visits, last login: 25 days ago
 Pompton Plains,Morris,NJ
 $9 per month (6 month contract)
 about 1 days
 "Still Thinking"
 "Pretty Obvious (all of it)"
 "Can't believe I ever used it. STAY FAR FAR AWAY!"
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I had AOL for dialup since I got my dell, only used it cause of the 6 months free. What a mistake I made! Prices jacked up to way past how much dialup should cost (over 23 bucks a month)! Anyway, then I got Verizon DSL which was great. But I didn't want to get rid of my email or screen name for AOL/AIM. So I kept AOL for Broadband for 9.95/month. I can't stand it. AOL gets you in with their free offers and then you can never get out. I am canceling immediately when my 6-month commitment is over! I already switched my email and screenname but its gonna take awhile for ppl to get used to it. God damn AOL! I thought even if you canceled you can atleast keep your screenname for aim, but they say no. Of Course.
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I have canceled AOL for good and successfully got a new email address and screenname. Thanks AOL for the hell you put me through. And to people still using AOL, STOP!! There is absolutely no reason to use it! All the stuff AOL offers can be found around the web for free without any bloatware or ads! Free yourself from AOHell!
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 Review by BUGZILLA 57
UPDATED: 4.4 years ago
member for 5.5 years, 1752 visits, last login: a few hours ago
Pflugerville,Travis,TX
Contract price not specified.
 Southwestern Bell
CLEC party: Southwestern Bell
"Radio @ AOL, nothing superior"
"admitted use attracts flamers and spamers"
"FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST...THANK GOD ALMIGHTY, IT'S FREE AT LAST! ;)"
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I fired AOL when they went free. Now, It's DEFINITELY worth every penny I pay.
I use AOL software only for e-mail and RADIO@AOL.
RADIO@AOL is still the cat's ass when it comes to on-line radio, though!
But WHAT could I possibly know?
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 Review by Nymostwanted
Posted: 4.5 years ago
member for 5.4 years, 1493 visits, last login: 13 days ago
New York,New York,NY
$49 per month (12 month contract)
about 14 days
Verizon
"Aol Feautures"
"Speeds"
"If you gotta have it, take it."
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Well, I placed an order on February 5th and got the modem and the line provisioned on the 10th. Comes out to be that they placed DSL on the wrong line. I called and they said that my line was going to be ready the 19th. So, here I am waiting. Everything is ''worse'' because I haven't even gotten a chance to use it. As soon as I am connected I'll update my information. Now I'm using dial-up which is pretty good.
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Today is the 19th and my isn't active!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I call and they say the 20th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is there a special time when verizon activates ur DSL line?????????
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Today is the 20th and I call and they say the 28th. I'll just have to wait. Strike 3 but in strike 4 AOL is out!
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Today is the 24th and I got DSL. My speeds are between 650-800 down and 135 up according to DSL reports I am happy.
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My pings are between 52-58!!!!!!!!!
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Godddddddddddddddddddddddddd
Service
My connection was down for about 30 seconds
My family is happy with it
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I know have had AOL DSL for like 2 months and it is so cool. My gf has AOL CABLE and she has 2.9 megabites according to DSL reports. I am planning to switching over to CABLE.
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AOL just got better with AOL 8.0 PLUS. Well, the features are great. I heard about a new welcome screen. I can't get it. For some reason. If u'll like to help me IM me at Obelisk21.
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AOL's new price for ppl that have AOL through Verizon lines is great. Now, I only pay 39.99 a month. That includes unlimited dial-up and unlimited DSL. Also, 9.0 is coming. Remember, AOL is getting better.
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AOL DSL has been working smoothly the last few months. No connection drop-outs and it my DSL signal has been steady. I am capped at 768/128 and I get 752/135-6. AOL has beeen great!
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AOL 9.0 IS COMING! GREAT FEATURES! GREAT EVERYTHING!
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I have left AOL DSL, since a while back. Hopped on to Verizon Online DSL for 29.99/month for one year, with speeds up to 3.0/768. I usually get 2793/715. With AOL DSL I got 768/128 and payed more for it. The MSN software is great, but I dont use it that much. I prefer Firefox over all.
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 Review by Notorious
UPDATED: 4.6 years ago
member for 8.7 years, 2481 visits, last login: a few minutes ago
Brooklyn,Kings,NY
$41 per month
about 30 days
Verizon
"none"
"none"
"none"
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Long time ago.
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Review by typenamehere
Posted: 4.6 years ago
member for 4.6 years, 13 visits, last login: 3.7 years ago
undisclosed location
Contract price not specified.
"Umm... it connects at it's own free will"
"Anything you can think of, except for the colour"
"Not recommended"
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I spent two years connecting with aol, and for ten years I've had to deal with slow and sometimes non-existant connections. I've finally had enough and switched to Sympatico. I would recommend it too people who like to look at e-mail, and play the waiting game.
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Review by spikymonkee
Posted: 4.7 years ago
member for 4.7 years, 0 visits, last login: 4.7 years ago
New York,New York,NY
$23 per month
"none"
"pushy sales, impossible cancellation, expensive"
"cancellation is almost next to impossible, what HELL."
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My mother recently made a mistake and signed up for AOL over broadband because she thought it would "make broadband faster" as it advertised on the website. It doesn't. We already get broadband from time warner cable.
We called AOL to cancel. This is when the trouble started.
On the phone, this overly friendly sales guy REFUSED, simply REFUSED to let my mother cancel. He keeps on insisting that since her free trial has barely started she should give it time to REALLY use the service. We said, no... we don't need it, please cancel it. 15 minutes we spent on the phone with this guy. He just refused to stop counting and recounting the amazing benefits of aol over broadband. He kept on saying... this will make your broadband FASTER. We asked how? He really didn't have an answer other than "It comes with free software!"
I said, we don't need the anti spam/virus/crap software. It didn't matter, he just kept on going. In the end my mother caved in and let him offer her an extra month of free trial and finally got off the phone.
So of course with busy lives, neither of us remembered this horrible little subscription until months later when she checked her credit bills and noticed she has been charged for 2 months.
We called them back tonight at 2am to REALLY cancel this time. A man answered with an indian accent, he took down our information and transferred us to another lady also with an indian accent. Except this time we can hardly understand what she was saying. We gave her our info again and explained our situation and asked her to credit our card back since she can clearly tell we did not use the account at all from her records.
She said that out of her goodwill, she will credit only one month back. I replied that was unfair because we tried very hard to cancel the first time and wasn't successful, that's why we were charged for 2 months now. She kept on talking faster and faster until the only words I can understand is "good will" and "one month".
I asked for her manager. She said "It's a waste of time because we all have equal power". I was mildly shocked to hear her tell me that it's a waste of time to speak with someone else. I insisted on speaking with the manager. Finally a man gets on the phone with nearly perfect English. I asked him if he knew the background information, he just said "no problem we will credit your two months back, now I will forward you to cancellation.". 30 minutes later, I finally got the refund.
But the saga continues. Apparently the cancellation department in India is just as ruthless as the cancellation department in the states. After asking for our account information for the nth time, she asked me why I wanted to cancel. I said, I just dont want or need it so please just cancel it. She said, do you see the aol icon on your desktop? we have many, many amazing features! I told her I have already deleted all the trace of aol program so please just cancel our account. She sounded shocked, she went on and started reading off the other "amazing" features aol has.
At this point, I flat out told her that understand all the features and it's a much of useless crap that we do not need, please, please for god's sake just cancel my account.
After 45 minutes rom the start of our call, we finally got our cancellation number. Take my advice, if you value your time or money, DO NOT sign up with AOL. They take advange of those with a weak will and prey on those with a lack of technical understanding. In other words, they are just EVIL.
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I just read some other reviews and realized the "aol over broadband" service is supposed to be only $9.95 not the $23.90 they charged us. I guess we were being charged for a whole dial up service! My mother said she remembered telling the guy she HAD broadband. This means he signed her up for aol broadband even when she didn't need it. Did I mention they are truly EVIL?
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Review by hrickpa
Posted: 4.7 years ago
member for 8.5 years, 1044 visits, last login: 2 days ago
Reading,Berks,PA
$19 per month
about 10 days
Verizon
"somewhat stable"
"slow speeds 768/128 and nolonger providing services in ceirtan areas"
"expensive"
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i signed up for aol for broadband in the year 2000 the price for dsl was an extra $19.95 when it first came out had some problems went through 3 diffrent modems the first was a speed stream 4060 then a westell modem then a broadxent 8012u
i had a major problem with the dsl that wasn't aol's fault in 2001.
it was down once for a whole week in 2003 due to a hurracane
the price went up to $31.05 plus $2.65 in taxes
the total was around $58.00
the last month of aol dsl was in june of 2004
they are nolonger supplying there branded dsl no more
i switched to covad dsl 3.0/384 that is 39.95
and paying for byoc 9.95 for 6 months
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 Review by NightLinks
UPDATED: 4.8 years ago
member for 8.5 years, 4364 visits, last login: a few hours ago
Bronx,Bronx,NY
$9 per month (6 month contract)
"Good Content!!!"
"it sucks in dialup!"
"when you have a FAST CONNECTION AOL it works great!"
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well I have OOL and AOL for Broadband and it works great the CONTENT in AOL has always been good. if you try to get the content outside of AOL you will pay a good amount of money. I did my research that's why I went to AOL so that I don't pay the extra cash for stuff that I can get from AOL for only 14.95 a month.
update: 1/21/2005 I have been an aol subscriber on and off since I can rember I go back as to 99' and even when I first signed up on 95' when they use to charge by the minute! aol just keeps getting better and better with BYOA and with a fast internet connection AOL is worth every penny!
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 Review by F14b0mbk4t
Posted: 5 years ago
member for 5 years, 201 visits, last login: 4.6 years ago
San Francisco,San Francisco,CA
$55 per month
"Ease of use with email"
"Everything, expensive, crappy speeds, useless features"
"Stay away!"
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AOL broadband is absolutely horrible! Constant 200MS+ to local game servers. They don't even tell you the speed they are going to give you, for all I know, they could be giving you dial-up speeds at the cost of broadband. The order & installation process was super easy though, I don't remember the modem but all I know it's AOL exclusive. The AOL software is full of useless features. They charge you $23 to use their software and a seperate fee to use their broadband connection. What a rip-off, stay away from AOL broadband at all cost! The only thing I enjoyed was their email program. AO-HELL! Luckly, I got to cancel the service before the one month free trial was up. Thank God!
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Review by ejoel
Posted: 5 years ago
member for 5 years, 5 visits, last login: 4.9 years ago
Chicago,Cook,IL
Contract price not specified.
"people connectivity"
"connection speed, connection stability, price, awfull tech support, alluring commercials, annoying cd's, so 90's, and so on...."
"If you want to save your desk from being hit by yourself and avoid needless headaches,do yourself a favor don't waste your time"
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Yeah whatever. It should be called america offline this crap kept on disconnecting me for no reason, and yeah their tech support don't know crap either, so much blind ppl pay for such a mediocre service that will offer you a thousand extras to keep adding charges, and for this thirsty company to keep sending billions of cd's with phony graphics , To those AOL users: open your eyes! you are paying for all that unsolicited crap. WTF? AOL MANIPULATES YOUR COMPUTER think about it, it's like desguised spyware, AOL keeps track of all the sites their members visit so that they'd put the most visited on "what's hot" or some like that. Only spyware does that. on some sections, many ppl that i know who have fast computers, AOl has frozen on them just for cancelling an action, when you try to disconnect (if you have dial up) you have to get around that long while when it is doing god know what to your computer, and that F***ing voice!!!!!!!!!!!!god, so annoying. AOL offers stuff that is already free, and they make it seem like "wow check this out this is cool, and it's... free!" yeah rite. THERE'S nothing better than a simple connection you can rely on without no fancy-wanna-be features like a stupid voice and all that crap, that offers you a secure connection, won't compromise you, good tech support, that does not manipulate your computer, when you tell your computer to disconnect it does so, Good speed, and will charge you a reasonable price depending on the type of connection; AOL HAS NONE OF THESE.
and the truth will set you free
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