AO-HELL

[jonwoad]

Hi all,

Is anyone here having problems with AOHell? In the last few months I've been unable to connect more than ever before :( In the last month or so there have been two occasions where I've had no internet at all grrrrr :mad:

Any ideas...?

Jon

[coiler]

AO-Hell are possibly the worst EVER isp. :redface:

[tystar]

thats why they give free laptops so people will goto them.

[coiler]

thats why they give free laptops so people will goto them.

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

[coiler]

AOL =







http://b.mektroid.net/fail_cat.jpg

[nft99]

Any Old Lies :D

[coiler]

A O L

Apple Orange Leech

[jonwoad]

TBH I've not had any problems until recently :(

[jonwoad]

Not that it matters as I'm moving out soon anyway so byebye AOL

[coiler]

Is today national AOHell bashing day?

[jonwoad]

Quite possibly!

[leviaxxan]

There are still some good ISPs out there, just need to do some research to find them ;)

[Outcast]

Well if you find them it's sods law they wont be available for my area !!

[monkey56657]

I havnt had any problems with virgin media 20mb and always get the full speed.

I hear the tech support is awful though. But as long as you don't need that your good to go :mrgreen:

[wonderlust]

I havnt had any problems with virgin media 20mb and always get the full speed.

I hear the tech support is awful though. But as long as you don't need that your good to go :mrgreen:

I don't know if this is true but if it is?

http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=41772

[theBishopp]

Well, every company will have problems, and Virgin Media has had quite a lot with merging Virgin and Cable and Wireless... The best I have heard of (if a] it is available in your area and b] you aren't one of the few that has problems with them) is BE Broadband. Very quick, very consistent service. Unfortunately only available to a small percentage of the population :(

Edit - WOAH! Just read the thing about Phorm... I already have Tor, and JAP, but because I regularly download and try free software, and do a lot of gaming, it is useless for me half the time... As for the Opt-out clause mentioned, isn't that illegal, or merely frowned upon now? I am fairly sure it has to be an opt-in thing, but could be mistaken there...

I used to work for BT for a few years, and still have several friends within their management, so will be asking what is happening tomorrow...

[wonderlust]

Be Unlimited announces plans to increase LLU coverage by 400 exchanges


http://www.samknows.com/broadband/news.php?id=349

[theBishopp]

WOO! You know, I used to use Samknows when I worked at BT, as it was more informative than the internal BT site, but forgot about it since leaving... Thanks for the reminder! just bookmarked it again! :)

Even better, the date for my exchange being enabled is not far off! -
30/06/2008
Kent
South East

[wonderlust]

yeah that and DSL Zone (useful for finding out roughly how close you are to your exchange

http://www.dslzoneuk.net/distance.php

[Mul.]

A bit late but I'm having problems too.

I believe it's due to AOL shifting the UK users to another provider. You might've noticed that your IP's changed from 172.xx.xx.xx to 92.xx.xx.xx. Mine was transferred a few weeks ago and my line has been incredibly unstable ever since. Ironically on the genuine AOL connection I was getting my full 8mbps without any drop outs.

[matt_2k34]

Ironically on the genuine AOL connection I was getting my full 8mbps without any drop outs.

A college mate of mine has gone the opposite way :) his 172.xxx line always dropped out and now his 92.xxx line is solid, just crappily slow. Remote desktop is awful over it :)

I Imagine they will sort their problems out, but being AOL i do not expect it to happen soon. Also hopefully they are static / more static IPs than before, as banning people from sites was a nightmare :)

Be* / O2 is very popular at college also, good speed, great customer service (via Be*) and not overpriced, just bad for anyone who is :
a) stuck in a contract with another isp.
b) wouldnt receive any benefit of ADSL2.

:) oh well, ill keep hoping :)