AOL - High Speed Cable

[Tia Haenni]

Road Runner dial-up access is only for use outside your home service 
area. I know this because I tried to use it from home once when RR cable 
was down and I was scolded by tech support and told that if I did it 
again, I could lose my dial-up priveledges. Oooo, so intimidating!

Tia

John Lindinger wrote:

>...RoadRunner dial in service (at dial in speeds, of course).  Good to know.  Thanks for
>the tip,
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>John Lindinger
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>--- zscoundrel <zscoundrel at kc.rr.com> wrote:
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>>You will not see AOL high speed offered through TW cable access in a 
>>market until Road Runner - or whomever the default ISP partner was when 
>>TW started connecting broad band consumers - no longer holds a monopoly 
>>in that area.
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>>An example would be de-regulation in the local telco industry.  SWB 
>>wants to get into the long distance business, but can't do so until the 
>>other local phone companies have at least 20% of the market.  Suddenly - 
>>BANG - there are billboards up all over town advising us to "fire" SWB 
>>and hire Birch, and if you look in the front of the phone book there are 
>>ADDs and contact info for OTHER PHONE COMPANIES!!!!  (Note: SWB is now 
>>known as SBC corp.)
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>>I believe the FCC required TW to open the ISP market to the competition 
>>as part of the agreement to let AOL and TW merger.  This is why our Road 
>>Runner accounts didn't automatically become AOL accounts the day after 
>>the merger!  If you happen to visit some place that has a modern cable 
>>system that is not TW - you may see AOL being offered as an ISP via 
>>cable modem.
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>>I am not going to flame someone for using AOL, but I will point out that 
>>Road Runner offers a dial up access option - which is currently FREE - 
>>to their high speed customers, so AOL is not a requirement for access on 
>>the road.
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>>  Here is the link:
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>http://help.rr.com/getpage.asp?/faqs/e_dial_access_overview.html?topic=Dial+Access#pricing
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>>I am still waiting for Everest to bring fiber to my back door.  One of 
>>the neighbors works for them and said (unofficially) that they should be 
>>in our area by the end of the year.  High Speed access, Voice, and 
>>Video.  Since it is buried, there should be no storm or drunk driver 
>>related outages to contend with.
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>>John Lindinger wrote:
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>>>You may be mixing apples and oranges. The AOL High Speed Broadband link presently on
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>>the
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>>>www.aol.com page is selling DSL telephone service, not cable modem service.
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>>>Seems that the "Time Warner" half of "AOL Time Warner" has no intention of bundling
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>>AOL
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>>>subscriptions with the RoadRunner high speed digital cable service. THAT'S GOOD!!!
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>>>Anybody who wants cable modem service, can have it without an AOL subscription.  If
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>>any
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>>>RoadRunner user really wants to routinely hear that "You've Got Mail" jingle, they
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>>can
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>>>get the $14.95/month AOL "bring-your-own-access " plan.  That's option #3 at...
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>>>   http://www.aol.com/info/pricing.html
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>>>By the way, now that I've shut off my dial-up ISP account, it's not as easy to
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>>connect my
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>>>laptop to the internet when I travel, unless the hotel has an ethernet connection in
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>>the
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>>>room (some do but it costs extra). 
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>>>So silly as it sounds, having the AOL software on my laptop, though not "cool", can
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>>be
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>>>useful, because AOL does have access telephone numbers all over the country. I used
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>>AOL
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>>>in the mid nineties for this very reason. The bring your own access plan was only
>>>$10/month then, and they charged by the hour when I did dial in on their telephone
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>>from a
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>>>motel.
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>>>John Lindinger
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>>>PS - Okay, let the flames begin...
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>>>--- jose sanchez <j_r_sanchez at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>>>Hi:
>>>>
>>>>What you guys think about AOL-High Speed Cable.
>>>>Has anybody tried it?
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