From: i.love@spam.com
On 12/08/2025 22:30, Eli the Bearded wrote:
> In comp.misc, Theo wrote:
>> Someone with more US knowledge please correct me, but I think AOL dialup was
>> a service that ran over the top of your phone service, which you got from
>> your local phone company. That meant you could dial in from anywhere with a
>> phone connection.
>
> Yes, but probably to a local number for price and quality reasons.
>
>> To move into broadband they couldn't have had a national service like they
>
> AOL was (not originally but for several years) part of Time Warner which
> provides networking over cable TV lines in a large part of the country.
>
>> By contrast, in the UK the incumbent phone company offered national
>> wholesale access to DSL and AOL did become a DSL ISP using that for a while.
>
> Interesting. I've never used AOL dial-up, but I did use AOL very briefly
> (months) for a job. It was a matter of simply logging in over an
> existing network connection. Most people who use AOL still probably do
> that. Not sure if they have anything more than support for your aol.com
> email address left as part of the service.
>
> Elijah
> ------
> then $WORK was interested in AOL keywords
I remember being at University and taking my personal computer down
which had AOL and a dial up modem.
Each of the university rooms had ethernet so I connected my computer to
that and AOl was able to connect over TCPIP instead of via my Pace modem.
previously I had to pay by the minute charges to both AOL when using
their premium services and BT for all the calls.
COnnecting via TCPIP meant I was able to cut out the Phone bill and just
have the AOL bill.
I found a utility called RUAOL which would dynamically switch between
the free bits of AOL and the premium bits of AOL making the AOL bill
smaller.
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