On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, you wrote:
> In a message dated 22-Sep-00 19:35:52 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>
> << The connection may say 50,333 or something like that, but I dare you to
> compare
> the true speed to a real ISP >>
>
> ok here is something i bet you didnt know aol will tell you you hooked up at
> 50k or 57.33k and i recently got aol 5.0 to hook up at 115k but guess what
> its not the true speed of your connection it only works for stuff that
> directly coralates inside the aol application because it compresses the data
> bieng sent so it seems like a high speed but ITS NOT!, your phoneline is only
> capable of hanling up to 33kbps anything faster is a result of software
> manipulation try running an external browser from their software it will drag
> on and on, and in my case aol hogs the entire bandwidth of my phone line that
> sometimes it cant even run properly, aol believe it or not the older software
> like some of the first 4.0 versions operrated much more efficiently with your
> system,
--
Actually I did know that. A lot of AOL'ers believe that AOL is the internet
and when you try to tell them otherwise they are totally confused. I feel bad
for AOL users.
Jay
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gladness, that stays forever after."
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