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myke

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Registered: 7th Feb 01
Location: High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
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9th Jan 04 at 18:01

i have aol broadband, but don't wanna connect with aol anymore.
happy with the connection, but i'd rather browse with explorer.
when i try to start IE without aol running, it says cannot find server, although as it's broadband, it should be connected all the time right?

just wanna know if there's a way to get online without aol running?
was thinking i need the access numbers or something, but it's not dial-up anymore.

please help

Drew

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Registered: 24th Nov 01
Location: County Durham
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9th Jan 04 at 18:04

sign onto aol broadband - then open IE window and browse in that

thats wot i do

myke

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Registered: 7th Feb 01
Location: High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
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9th Jan 04 at 18:49

so is there no way of doing it without opening aol?

Drew

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Location: County Durham
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9th Jan 04 at 18:55

no - cause aol is ya isp - unless ya get a new isp

Nismo

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Registered: 12th Sep 02
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9th Jan 04 at 19:01

Open up AOL doofer and connect up etc... if ya on BBand ya wont need to and just minamize the AOL browser and open up Explorer.

myke

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Registered: 7th Feb 01
Location: High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
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9th Jan 04 at 19:06

ok, cheers guys

PaulW

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Registered: 26th Jan 03
Location: Atherton, Greater Manchester
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9th Jan 04 at 19:30

you have to use there software no matter what, some people once found a way to connect without the aol software but aol soon became wise to this and stopped it.

there is an alternative called peng, but its only for linux

myke

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Registered: 7th Feb 01
Location: High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
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12th Jan 04 at 22:44

just found this
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8276526~root=aolplus~mode=flat

groom

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Registered: 19th Apr 03
Location: In front of my pc
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12th Jan 04 at 22:47

aol is gay, broadband should be just straight between ur pc and ur router, modem etc. dump AOL and use a REAL isp

Dan B

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Registered: 25th Feb 01
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12th Jan 04 at 23:01

quote:
Originally posted by groom
aol is gay, broadband should be just straight between ur pc and ur router, modem etc. dump AOL and use a REAL isp

My suggestions for a replacement for AOL: Zen Internet (biased, I work for them), Nildram (connection used to be with them, before I started working for Zen), or Eclipse...

DanielJ

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Registered: 21st Nov 01
Location: gwent, south wales
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12th Jan 04 at 23:15

pipex

myke

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Registered: 7th Feb 01
Location: High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
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12th Jan 04 at 23:28

am on a 12 month contract with aol. will change as soon as this is expired.

i'm wanting to try what it says on that link, but am currently unable to open connection properties for some reason