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MSN commercial: "MSN is the great alternative to AOL"

JC

JC

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BUAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAHA!!!!

I thought getting a REAL isp is the great alternative to AOL...or suicide 😉
 
actually i used msn for a while, it actually had very good speeds and nice pings for 56k......aol and msn are like night and day.......with msn you can at least use your regular IE and just make a regular dial up connection thru networking instead of the whole proprietary crap with aol....
 
i don't get it... AOHell was a bad ass program. it generated credit card numbers, did all sorts of things in AOL chat rooms like the beavis and butthead talker ("heheh, he said would"), could nuke some people, flood the place, stuff like that. those were the glory days.


 
I was looking at alternatives to MSN, for cheap, thought I'd look at WalMart's ISP, until I discovered it's a 44 mb download.....:Q

I think Walmart learned too many things from AOL..... -kd5-
 


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<< What is wrong with AOL? >>



I think a better question to ask would be, "what's NOT wrong with AOL?" >>

So in other words you have no answer.
 
I LOVED MSN during the two months (free) I had it while waiting for cable modem. It gave awesome connection speed, at least twice as fast compared to AOL that I suffered through. I'd definitely recommend it.
 
I actually have used MSN for a while (almost 2 years). I did get a good price on the service, but I think they're a great ISP. Never had one busy signal in 2 years, and I might get a line dropped on me every 6 months or so (I can't remember it happening more than once or twice, and that could have been someone trying to call out). Fast speeds, reliability, good pricing- nothing else I'd want. I don't use the MSN extra services and never install their software. With AOL, it's kinda cool for social stuff, but sometimes........they just suck.
 


<< What is wrong with AOL? >>



expensive, slow, bad customer service, doesn't take adequate action against it's own users when they do bad stuff
 
Not only will AOL hose networks (I know they've fixed it, but _DAMN_, why'd they do it in the first place?), but it is piss poor for gaming, crashes, and wants to f***ing help you all the damn time and hide s***. I thought WinXP was too warm and fuzzy...then I try to check my mail at a friend's house, and he uses AOL...ugh. Also, they lose mail. At least 1 out of 4 emails sent to me from people I know who use AOL I never get. No problems with people on AT&T Worldnet, MSN (I helped a couple people get it as a DUN w/o the front-end BS 😀), Earthlink, Roadrunner, or @Home.

Now, as far as customer service...based on the above-mentioned friend's experience, it is good. Why? Because he only pays once every three months or so, and when they send a nasty-gram, he gets into it w/ them on the phone (if he wasn't getting it so cheap he'd be off of AOL).
 


<< and aol software is notorious for messing up computer settings/modems >>



ugh - your telling me! my grandparents insist that they use AOL because it's "so much easier". yet i have to go to their house to fix it just about every other week!
 


<< I'd take MSN over AOL anyday. >>


HERE HERE! Geez...I *hate* AOL so much..."You've got mail" --Oh shutup stupid thing.
 
I think it's amusing that there are advertisments for MSN Version 7.0. I'm surprised they didn't go with version 8.0 just to try and trump AOL.
 
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