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dont use aol

Larry wrote:

>   After AOL 5.0 installs the dialup adapters on the next re-boot you no
> longer have any access to your DSL/T2/T3 internet thru you in house
> network.  AOL WILL deny this to be a problem.  I have traced it down to
> AOL 5.0 and windows 98 (with IE 5.0)  I have replaced nic's, re-assigned
> IP address, Completely removed all networking components and re-installed
> them.  Removed AOL 5.0 completely.  The only SURE fix I have found is to
> re-install 98(with the upgrade of course)  But as SOON as you load up AOL
> 5.0 again and it configures its AOL adapters, the next re-boot same
> thing.  I spoke to the HEAD engineers at AOL yesterday. They claim that
> AOL 5.0 was writter for stand alone machines and do not support running it
> on a network, and that I should call microsoft, yea right, after giving
> them a piece of my mind I decided to keep calling back.  Finally I talk to
> a decent tech, that said YEA,  we are not supposed to say it's having
> problems, but we are getting hundreds of calls a day from it.  He was
> goingi to passs me off internally to microsoft then of course my cell
> phone went dead!!! What a day. Anyhow, if anyone can figure out how to fix
> this problem at the component level. ie what file to downgrade/replace
> etc.  Please post it as this will be a MAJOR problem in the coming weeks
> as people with 98 1 & 2 upgrade to AOL 5.0.
> Thanks
> Mike
> Please e-mail me if you have any suggestions!!
> Thanks

Well I guess that is one solution, in fact I called them the other day to
unsubscribe and got 2 months free AOL but that's another topic ~~ <giggle>
anyhow, what they are going to do is send me the CD for AOL 5.0 (which I have
not seen out in the stores or in mags yet) and that is supposed to fix it <yeah
right!!> IF the CD should happen to work I will let you know but I am not
holding my breath. Not only does it screw up my ISP but now it won't even let me
on with 5.0 I had to put 4.0 back in and all I can say is thank God that I had a
disk for 4.0 because you can't find a download on the AOL site for 4.0 anymore -
or if you can I sure can't find it. My problems didn't start happening until 2
weeks AFTER I had downloaded 5.0 and the tech that did call me back said that
was the first she had heard that one. <sigh>

Patti <~~ slowly but surely weaning herself OFF of AOL>

logit wrote:

> dont use aol
>
> Larry wrote:
>
> >   After AOL 5.0 installs the dialup adapters on the next re-boot you no
> > longer have any access to your DSL/T2/T3 internet thru you in house
> > network.  AOL WILL deny this to be a problem.  I have traced it down to
> > AOL 5.0 and windows 98 (with IE 5.0)  I have replaced nic's, re-assigned
> > IP address, Completely removed all networking components and re-installed
> > them.  Removed AOL 5.0 completely.  The only SURE fix I have found is to
> > re-install 98(with the upgrade of course)  But as SOON as you load up AOL
> > 5.0 again and it configures its AOL adapters, the next re-boot same
> > thing.  I spoke to the HEAD engineers at AOL yesterday. They claim that
> > AOL 5.0 was writter for stand alone machines and do not support running it
> > on a network, and that I should call microsoft, yea right, after giving
> > them a piece of my mind I decided to keep calling back.  Finally I talk to
> > a decent tech, that said YEA,  we are not supposed to say it's having
> > problems, but we are getting hundreds of calls a day from it.  He was
> > goingi to passs me off internally to microsoft then of course my cell
> > phone went dead!!! What a day. Anyhow, if anyone can figure out how to fix
> > this problem at the component level. ie what file to downgrade/replace
> > etc.  Please post it as this will be a MAJOR problem in the coming weeks
> > as people with 98 1 & 2 upgrade to AOL 5.0.
> > Thanks
> > Mike
> > Please e-mail me if you have any suggestions!!
> > Thanks