DJSlim
join:2002-05-18
Binghamton, NY
clubs:
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Re: [TWC] FREE AOL for RoadRunner users
I hate AOL but I took the promotion from Time Warner.
It took all of 5 minutes for my username and password to be active.
Downloaded my aol 9.0 from download.com so it is not a special version at all. Regular stock AOL.
I was assigned a master name by the RR sales person and now I can create 6 more.
total time for call, download and install and online
45 minutes
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Mele20
Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
| I hope your default user name was assigned by TW. If not, you are going to get a bill from AOL at the end of the month. You are required by TW to use the "special" version of AOL otherwise you are billed separately by AOL. The "special" version is the same as the "regular" version except it sees you, for billing purposes, as a Road Runner customer who had TW set up the free access. You don't have to use the default username. You can set up whatever screen names you want and use those. It is similar to the default Master email account that RR sets up for you. You cannot change that but you don't have to use it as you can set up other mail accounts with the names you want.
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DJSlim
join:2002-05-18
Binghamton, NY
clubs: | it was a default username provided by time warner. |
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sabersaw
Premium
join:2001-08-21
Dayton, OH
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said by Mele20  :I hope your default user name was assigned by TW. If not, you are going to get a bill from AOL at the end of the month. You are required by TW to use the "special" version of AOL otherwise you are billed separately by AOL. The "special" version is the same as the "regular" version except it sees you, for billing purposes, as a Road Runner customer who had TW set up the free access. You don't have to use the default username. You can set up whatever screen names you want and use those. It is similar to the default Master email account that RR sets up for you. You cannot change that but you don't have to use it as you can set up other mail accounts with the names you want. actually, the local office here told me to me to use whatever aol client I had or download from anywhere. why would it matter which client I use? RR set the account up. and they didn't really have a clue about telling a user how to get going with it. password is something like my zip code plus TW on the end? but i use the web interface and radio at work now. only time will tell about the billing. |
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Mele20
Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
| The tier 3 tech I spoke with at Oceanic TW in Honolulu, seemed very knowledgeable about this. She told me that I had to use the download from the TW corporate page. I asked her about users who already had AOL and she said they could continue to use the version they have but us new customers needed to get it from the TW download site.
I think the default password provided by your local TW varies from affiliate to affiliate. In Hawaii, it was my billing account number plus my zip code.
I was also told by Oceanic that if I ever leave RR that I have to call AOL and cancel AOL otherwise I will get a bill for AOL dialup.
Yeah, I wasn't given any help and I couldn't get the radio to work and that is what I wanted. The new AOL portal which is being launched in September, I believe, will offer everything for free to anyone except the radio from what I have read.
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Around 2005 a sudden spark will catalyze a Crisis mood. The very survival of the nation will seem to be at stake.Sometime before 2025, America will pass through a great gate in history. The risk and promise will be very high. The Fourth Turning Wm. Straus |
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KickMe
join:2001-10-03
Lancaster, OH
 ·RoadRunner Cable
·Earthlink Cable Mo..
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said by DJSlim :Downloaded my aol 9.0 from download.com so it is not a special version at all. Regular stock AOL. I was assigned a master name by the RR sales person and now I can create 6 more. Something must be skewed in my thinking here. But isn't TW/AOL making it possible for 7 people to sign up for one RR account at $45 a month and then splitting the bill allowing each to get AOL dialup for $6.50 a month? |
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NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
 ·Pacific Bell - SBC
| said by KickMe :said by DJSlim :Downloaded my aol 9.0 from download.com so it is not a special version at all. Regular stock AOL. I was assigned a master name by the RR sales person and now I can create 6 more. Something must be skewed in my thinking here. But isn't TW/AOL making it possible for 7 people to sign up for one RR account at $45 a month and then splitting the bill allowing each to get AOL dialup for $6.50 a month? Comcast, SBC Yahoo!, and any other service which allows multiple email accounts under a primary account is also opening up their services (sans AOL, of course!) to such abuse. The only catch, for those involved, is that the primary account holder is responsible for the entire bill; if somebody using a sub account welshes on the deal, the primary account holder will have to pick up the slack, or the account will be terminated for non-payment. Do you trust your friends enough to count on them with no enforceable contract? Indeed, do you trust your friends not to rat you out to the ISP, considering that such bill-splitting is a violation of the "no resale" clause in every HSI AUP/TOS that I have reviewed?
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Cybertoad
join:2001-11-08
Houston, TX
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said by KickMe :Something must be skewed in my thinking here. But isn't TW/AOL making it possible for 7 people to sign up for one RR account at $45 a month and then splitting the bill allowing each to get AOL dialup for $6.50 a month? You do know that you can't use those at the same time, right? When my Aunt is at her office using AOL, she
will get bumped offline if her daughter logs into AOL
from home even if her daughter uses a different sub-login
and irregardless whether or not my Aunt is connected via
broadband or dialup.
AOL only allows 1 simultaneous login per account.
Totally forgetting about the TOS violations splitting
the bill would cause, good luck coordinating the login
schedule on that one !!! |
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TMSKILZ
join:2004-03-07
Woodside, NY | Cybertoad that only applies to AOL Dial-Up version.
I have AOL SE Broadband version, more than one person/user account can sign up @ the sametime to the NET. |
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