AOL Ad
 

Whilst surfing the winamp forums i noticed the attached ad.

Curious of the validity of the ad (which says that aol offers 1000 hours free in 45 days) I decided to find out just how hard it would be to use this offer to the full.
45*24=1080
You would have just 80 hours in 45 days, which 1 hour and 45 mins ( :eek: ) each day to eat, sleep, got to the toilet and actually connect to aol (which takes longer than you'd think).

What i would like to know is how many of you guys could use this to the full, i.e. how many of you are connected to the net for more than 22 hours and 15 mins each day. (excluding broadband peeps).

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yeah...

basically you could stay online almost all day long:)

I know people who already do!

I live in the UK, and AOL do an offer where you get your first month's access totally free, no restrictions, and if you don't like it then you can cancel it with no obligations and nothing to pay at all. Sounds GREAT!

Only guess what. When you decide to cancel your subscription you have to ring the national helpline number (charged at some obscene rate) and you soon realise than rather than some ultra high-tech modern call centre to handle your call there is one rather elderly, deaf old lady in Aberdeen. So you can't get through. At all. For days. And then the AOL subscription fee kicks in. And now you're paying. And you still can't get through. This is fairly common in Britain.

Indeed. Also lets not forget the rest of their false advertising. For example the time they compared themselves to Freeserve and incorrectly made them out to be more expensive by blaming them for high call charges. (Which are set by BT and nothing to do with Freeserve.) To make it worse AOL won the court case somehow. So bugger them.


Anyway more on the 1000 hours here -
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....threadid=61461

 
 

I'm in the UK, and I get unmetered on a dial-up with no cut-off for 15 quid a month. Whenever the connection drops my machine just dials up again. I'd say I'm probably online over 23hrs per day (at least my machine is).

Let's not get even get started on what we've done to the American concept of "fast food". If I go into Burger King and there's a big queue, I have to wait 10 minutes to get served. Shit. If I go into Burger King and there's NO queue, then they have no staff working and I have to wait 10 minutes while my food cooks.
I feel sure this could never happen in America.

BTW Freeserve is shit on Tuesdays - my dialup is even worse than usual. is there a reason for this?

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I get the sane sort of thing for £13 a month but the connection is crap.

If yours is really good pass it on please, I'd happily pay the extra couple of quid for something more reliable.

UJ

You can pay an extra £10 or something and get cable. You'll be thankfull you did :)

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I'm with Tiscali ( http://www.tiscali.co.uk ). I can't get cable or DSL here, so I'm stuck with a dial-up for now - but I'd definately recommend Tiscali to anyone - I connect first time 99% of the time and downloads are always about as fast as you can get with 56k.

Thanks Prodangle, I'll look into it.

UJ