aol ,,,hell

now normaly i stear away from aol ,,even the adsl version ,,and let joe punter install it himself,

after building/reloading a computer , i usualy dropp a network card in ,and just do updates , using a cat 5 from my router.

joe punter , wants a router , so that he can use 2 machines ,seperatly on the net,

i have a couple of routers here , both are the types that have 1 x usb and 1 x cat5 ,,

is aol as easy it configure , as conventional adsl?


bev?? confus-ed ?

any thoughts?


they do not want to be networked ,,

most adsl routers will not work with AOL, they tend to specifiy 'will work with most adsl connections, except AOL'

you would need a way of connecting the AOL adsl modem to the router, which means that you would need to use a linux router such as smoothwall. this also assumes that aol use a common adsl modem, such as the alcatel speedtouch, but probably is not the case.

aol almost certainly use their own proprietry solution designed to make it as hard as possible to share the broadband.

notice that the selling points of thier more expensive broadband packages is network capability, which suggests that it will be very difficult to network the more basic packages.

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Originally Posted by Six Eyed Smily

most adsl routers will not work with AOL, they tend to specifiy 'will work with most adsl connections, except AOL'

you would need a way of connecting the AOL adsl modem to the router, which means that you would need to use a linux router such as smoothwall. this also assumes that aol use a common adsl modem, such as the alcatel speedtouch, but probably is not the case.

aol almost certainly use their own proprietry solution designed to make it as hard as possible to share the broadband.

notice that the selling points of thier more expensive broadband packages is network capability, which suggests that it will be very difficult to network the more basic packages.

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wooh down there ,,linux boxes? ,,,this is a house ,,and he wants to plug his l/top in , in his newly built office,

ok , in the uk both aol and bt supply a voyager 105 modem , this is usb only ,,
i was suplied one , when i joined bt , since then i have put a smc 7401bra router , in place of it.


i simply typed in the user name and password ,,,and it works

is it the same for aol?

computer no 1 would be connected to router via usb , with the correct usb driver

i appreciate that computer no 2 , will not need aol loaded , and he can simply access the internet ,, thru internet explorer

is this correct?

Freddy, here in the US, customer would just have to call AOL and request a cat 5 modem. Using AOL version 9, two different screen names could log on at the same time. Or just use Internet Explorer as you say.

ok , job done ,

used an smc 7401 ,,entered [email protected] and p/word , found a usable dns from ipconfig , and was away and running ,

2 machine , 2 lusers ,,,both using seperate logons ,,aol loaded on both machines ,,,,aol 8 by the way

done and dusted ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,