I remember this when AOL was very popular (back in dial-up days).
*shudder* As soon as I approached a networking problem on a computer and found out they were using AOL, it was the first thing I checked. And more likely than not, it was the culprit. Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 5:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: AOL Yep sounds right. In my experience when I used to actually try to support AOL clients I found its software seemed to bind with the NIC drivers (or the TCP/IP stack, I forget which) in an unusual way. IIRC it made me think it acted like a "special AOL loopback adapter that allows connect to AOL/Internet" or something frustrating. Normal troubleshooting of the network pieces only got me part way - uninstalling AOL would even sometimes break the TCP/IP stack... Dave From: paul chinnery [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 10:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: AOL I had to visit a doctor's office (office would dial in remotely to the hospital) because she said the link (url) to our RAS wasn't working. Got there and she's running AOL (and she has broadband, too). Every freakin' time I tried to put a shortcut on her desktop to the RAS, AOL would change it. Finally, I told her I'd put it in her Favorites folder. ________________________________ From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 10:07:53 -0700 Subject: RE: AOL When I get asked to work on a home user PC with AOL I let them know up front *I DO NOT SUPPORT AOL* nor troubleshoot Internet browsing issues other than being able to ping the gateway and 4.2.2.2 (my favorite public DNS 'cause it's easy to remember). Dave From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 12:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: AOL On 5 Aug 2009 at 22:49, Sean Houston wrote: > I remember Compuserve, Prodigy and AOL being the main 3 companies around. I > can't say I was ever aware they were ever known as anything but AOHell. Fidonet all the way, baby .... I ran a BBS for many years. I think I still have the 386 it was running on when I finally shut it down. WildCat BBS from Mustang Software. Those were the days. CIS 75500,3223, that was me. However, 16 of the 17 hits of a Google search for my old ID are messages on this list from 2008 ;-) http://www.google.com/search?q="75500%2C3223"; I remember being excited when I had a "real" email address of [email protected] ... I had some really neat software for reading forums -- OzCIS -- and eventually OzCIS for Windows, which never really measured up to the DOS program. Never had a Prodigy address. I got an AOL address -- a couple of them, actually -- this year so I could support home-clients with AOL issues, and for IM purposes. Never use them, though. -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-895-3270 ~! No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.406 / Virus Database: 270.13.45/2285 - Release Date: 08/06/09 05:57:00 ________________________________ Get free photo software from Windows Live Click here. <http://www.windowslive.com/online/photos?ocid=PID23393::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL :en-US:SI_PH_software:082009> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
