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i have aol (my parents pay for it), and i have bitching to get off it for about a year now. they are finally considering earthlink. any opinions out there about speed, reliability, etc.?
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I'm using it right now while I wait for my cable to be installed and I must say its quite good.

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stupid question, but will it work on 28.8 modems? my parent's is a relic and the packaging says the lowest is 33.6. need to know if they need to buy another modem.
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heh...my lines are too slow for 33.6, fastest is 28.8, and octavian, i know exactly what you mean, i keep saying to my dad "AOL sucks, get cable, we can afford it, and its much faster" and he says "i dunno, i dont think we can afford it, (which we definetly can) and i think its too early, something faster might come out"...jesus...everything is faster than AOL on a 28.8 connection....I hate stupid people.
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god, aol is so slow anyway. mine tells me i'm connecting at 49.3, but it's the same speed surfing and d/ling at my friends on AT&T, and it says he's on at 26.4. burn aol burn!
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heh, "Everyong I know is on AOL, and its easy to see why! It's so easy! Just put the cd in your computer, and in minutes, youve ruined your life!"
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Earthlink used to suck majorly, but my Mother just got on Mindspring ( theyv'e merged) and it seems much fatser and more reliable.

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trust me, ive tried almost everything. he would have gone for dsl, but we're out of range, and you know how likely it is that bell atlantic would actually make another router close enough for me to get dsl (like .00001 chance)and ive pointed out to him that theyve just upgraded our cable lines so we can have faster access than dsl, and that he will be able to be on at the same time as other people in our house....he always either sort of agrees, just to get me to leave him alone, because he knows im right....or he doesnt believe me...and we cant afford AOL and Cable, 72 a month is a lot.
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Just out of interest, why the hell do you need AOL + Cable? I mean, whats the point having both there?

I know it's a possibility that the Cable might go down for a while, but you could sign up for a free ISP for that situation, as for everyone someone knows being on AOL, that makes no difference, write down their email addy's/AIM names/whatever and then set them up again on the Cable.

Trust me, I'm on a dialup, if I had the chance of getting Cable in the next 5 years, I'd get it and be happy, its much more worth the money on Cable than dialup, because on Cable, you're permanently online, so even when you aint at your machine and it isnt getting used, you can have big files downloading without having to worry about the phone line being in use, or worrying about getting disconnected all the time (coz on cable, its almost never, depending on the provider).

Add to that the fact that if you have the machines in the house on a LAN, then you're all online permanently, so you dont have to worry about people whining that they want to be on the computer doing something online when your machine is the only one with the modem or so.

The advantages are endless, the disadvantages are almost none.

Get Cable, get it now, it's worth it for what you can get it at and use it for.

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i'll look into mindspring. oh well, i must deserve aol, i'm still a lam0r.
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