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High-speed Internet Connection: What To Do When Yours Goes Down - Part 2
by Lee Hudspeth April 5, 2001
My first article in this series generated several emails from
folks incredulous that I would suggest using AOL under any
circumstances. I appreciate these readers' cries of alarm, and
here's my reply.
I consciously chose not to get into a discussion of AOL in my
initial article. In retrospect, that was a mistake. Too many
readers may have inferred that if Lee says AOL is okay for a
backup plan, it must be okay for general use. In my opinion, it's
not okay for general use, but under certain very specific
circumstances it can provide a safety net (more on this in a
moment). I never had any direct empirical evidence that AOL was
causing system instabilities, only that it had what I considered
a poor user interface and bad technical support. The "bad UI"
judgment was easy to make; AOL connection software is
proprietary, frenetic, and laden with "eyeball traps" that simply
shouldn't be part of a paid-for online connection experience. I
made the bad technical support judgment based on the experiences
of numerous clients and friends, all of whom reported extensive
problems with the service, but I had never used it myself. (As
you'll read in a moment I now have my own bad AOL experiences to
lament.)
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