The New, Bionic AOL > Bigger, stronger, -cough- faster

Bigger, stronger, -cough- faster

Its actually getting great reveiws from all who have tested it. »www.cnet.com/internet/0-3762-8-2···7-1.html

Sure, its bloatware if that is not the type of content you want (or if you want content at all) or you have an old shitty computer.. I happen to love the broadband content( i am a streaming content junkie) and dont consider it bloatware in the least bit. You also dont have to use the client anymore when you dont want to see the content for those of you who have AOL Broadband DSL. You connect with ppoe instead of the client with DSL. You can also just get BYOA if you like being able to see full concerts with great artists streaming in crystal clear quality, news,sports,movies,ect. A great filesharing community, and a shitload of other "FEATURES". If your into all that, AOL Broadband is great..it is nothing compared to what AOL was only just about 5 years ago.

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I have a hard time believing a review from someone who would give AOL well know horrid service and support a 9 even though they admit to that portion of the software not being complete and therefore not testable while the AOL forums here are wrought with AOL subscribers complaining of the same.

Plus AOL remains at the bottom (save for MSN) of the national ISP heap according to reviews by subscribers here as well as a continued horrid showing with J.D. Power.

In addition (this may have changed) but AOL was planning to charge an additional $3 (as if their rates weren't high enough) per month to get access to the new security features of AOL 9.0.

Content can be gotten anywhere. Inclusion of realpass simply doesn't justify the high cost.
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YOU PAY FOR THE REALPASS...10 bucks a month. YOU PAY FOR CNN..ect. And you are totally wrong that you can get the AOL concerts, the filesharing, ect anywhere else on the web..YOU CANT.

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YOU PAY FOR THE REALPASS...10 bucks a month. YOU PAY FOR CNN..ect. And you are totally wrong that you can get the AOL concerts, the filesharing, ect anywhere else on the web..YOU CANT.

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YOU PAY FOR THE REALPASS...10 bucks a month. YOU PAY FOR CNN..ect. And you are totally wrong that you can get the AOL concerts, the filesharing, ect anywhere else on the web..YOU CANT.

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Why do I need AOL for concerts when I have DirecTV Freeview?

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The DirecTV stuff is Dolby Digital 5.1 and the picture is outstanding.

Last week was Radiohead from London, this weekend it's Roger Waters playing The Wall live from The Berlin Wall, 1990, remastered; Bob Marley & The Wailers Live in London 1977. Seems like a pretty good mix so far
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YOU PAY FOR THE REALPASS...10 bucks a month. YOU PAY FOR CNN..ect. And you are totally wrong that you can get the AOL concerts, the filesharing, ect anywhere else on the web..YOU CANT.

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The DirecTV stuff is Dolby Digital 5.1 and the picture is outstanding.

Last week was Radiohead from London, this weekend it's Roger Waters playing The Wall live from The Berlin Wall, 1990, remastered; Bob Marley & The Wailers Live in London 1977. Seems like a pretty good mix so far

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YOU PAY FOR THE REALPASS...10 bucks a month. YOU PAY FOR CNN..ect. And you are totally wrong that you can get the AOL concerts, the filesharing, ect anywhere else on the web..YOU CANT.

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Oh yeah, there is no filesharing outside AOL. Yep, Launch.com doesn't have music. Guess we all NEED AOL to get content.

And as far as realpass goes...that's my point. Realpass is worthless. Who needs to pay higher ISP rates just to see CNN.com's 2x2" video streams when you can get news from CNN TV or free from other online sources.

As a former AOL customer, I'm just not seeing anything special in AOL's content to warrant dealing with their crappy client, bad customer service and high ISP rates.

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Yep...overpriced bloatware. And full screen? So what. I consider myself having a pretty pricy monitor with the 19" viewsonic DFP...now that is compared to a typical television. 19" isn't crap...even a large screen, say 21" what's the point. Concerts are about entertainment. You're going to get entertained by a 19" picture and computer speakers? If you are satisfied with spending extra money EVERY month for this type of stuff...more power to you...but I'd rather put that $10 toward a Netflix subscription or something that gets me way more "content" for my money.
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reply to oliphant5
I walked out of a job interview with AT&T when they used AOL for some reason. They said that the techs (job I was there for) would fix systems that had problems with AOL. I told them that EVERY system has problems with AOL. It's not the systems, it's the software. I told them that I couldn't handle the stress of dealing with AOL on a daily basis and that the job wasn't for me. Buh-bye.

Why would an AT&T office have any AOL software on their machines...

They're glutton for punishment. They told their employees if they make their profit targets that they will get to remove the software.

reply to oliphant5
No matter now many version AOL comes out, AOL will still remain the same forever, bad internet services, though there software is very nice and nice looking. Other than that STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM THEM!

And it's not just the client...it's dealing with AOL. Have a question...better order dinner cause you'll be on hold forever just to get a AOL knownothing who will tell you the solution to your problem is formatting.
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"Countries...have a right to be free, and we a right to aid them, as a strong man has a right to assist a weak one assailed by a robber or murderer." --Thomas Jefferson, 1816.

reply to oliphant5
most companies have aol on thier computers. employees (not employers) install it. Last company i worked for used aim to communicate throughout the office and people had aol installed all over by employees..... and this was at the noc level, it came in very handy if you wanted to see cnn or sports stuff and junk from work without having to pay that realpass crap.

on the otherhand, you'll be suprised how many executives with six figure salaries use aol at work.

reply to oliphant5
That’s just cruel and unusual punishment. I’m pretty sure something like that is in breach of the Geneva Convention, or count as some kind of War Crime.

reply to oliphant5
AOL says "relentless innovation". The only thing relentless up to now has been the relentless innovation for their software to latch on to your system and for you to be unable to fully uninstall all of it.

And why does half the web sites one visits have special instructions for users who are accessing the site via AOL?

Five years ago I had a business relationship with EarthLink. All of the AOL executive staff used EarthLink for their email--and it wasn't free.

reply to aztecnology
It wasn't installed in the office, it was on customer's machines. I think it was their first run at Internet access. I don't know why they used it, but I didn't stick around to find out either.