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going from around $20 to $26. AOL says its in an attempt to make people switch to broadband. I've always wondered why anyone is still hanging out on AOL anyway. Its time to switch people!

You can get 3.0 Mbps SBS Yahoo DSL in my area for $20. Why anyone uses dial-up is beyond me.

Some areas don't have it yet, amazingly, and satellite is very expensive.

We didn't get DSL where we are until about 18 months ago. We were 18,000 feet from the transponder, and you need to be inside 15,000.

I love how AOL is trying to scare people into getting their service because of all the "dangers" on the Internet: spamming, hackers, etc... If they're raising prices because they're losing profits, maybe they shouldn't send me a disk for a free 1025 minutes every two weeks!

AOL is spectacularly, incredibly lame. Not only do they deserve derision for what they do to their customers, but they are a major impediment to...well, just about everything internet.

Before they piped in the DSL here, I used an independent ISP. None of that shit advertising that AOL does. before SBC came along though, I think AOL may have been one of the few that offered filtered content for families with young kids.

AOL is lame but for clueless idiots who still want to browse the web and want to think they can make it safe for their kids by having their ISP filter stuff, its probably a good deal. Of course you can always just a. pay attention to your kids, b. limit their time online if they are too young to manage their own content and c. buy products (software and hardware) that will do some of the filtering for you.
Of course the kids are a lot smarter then their parents so they can usually get around their parents, but I'm sure they can't get around AOL. heh...

In my town I pay $60 for a 1.5mbp line. (thats bullshit)

verbal wrote:In my town I pay $60 for a 1.5mbp line. (thats bullshit)

OUCH!

I had a 6.0 Mbps for $50 from SBC. It had some problems with a fluctuating signal because I was kind of at the distance limit to get the 6.0 Mbps. They told me that if they capped it at 4.0 Mbps that it would work fine but why pay twice the price for an extra 1.0 Mbps. So I dropped down to the 3.0.

ElTaco wrote:AOL is lame but for clueless idiots who still want to browse the web and want to think they can make it safe for their kids by having their ISP filter stuff, its probably a good deal. Of course you can always just a. pay attention to your kids, b. limit their time online if they are too young to manage their own content and c. buy products (software and hardware) that will do some of the filtering for you.
Of course the kids are a lot smarter then their parents so they can usually get around their parents, but I'm sure they can't get around AOL. heh...

I disagree that merely buying programs or manually limiting their time is enough. For example, SBC Yahoo DSL has an excellent family set up. It will send the parent a weekly e-mail letting them know every site their kids visited, allow the parent to set time limits starting at one hour per day and which hours each day the children have internet access, allows the parent to select what sites the kids can go to, and prevents the kids from using IM, chat rooms, and specifies what they can and cannot download as well as who they can send and receive emails from.
Each child has their own username and is given an accessibility ranking, totally controlled by the parent.

considering that you can go to google and type the word "tits" and get a picture of a woman sucking a dick pretty much right away, any program that controls and notifies the parent without the parent having to hover over the kid every moment is OK by me.

You just can't sit next to kids every moment of every day they are on the computer, especially if you have several kids of different ages, so this really does lend some peace of mind knowing that your kids only have whatever access you allow.

The only loophole I found is that if the kids know how to find and open up internet explorer they can get around the controls, but that would be easy to disable.

Mister Bushice wrote:For example, SBC Yahoo DSL has an excellent family set up. It will send the parent a weekly e-mail letting them know every site their kids visited, allow the parent to set time limits starting at one hour per day and which hours each day the children have internet access, allows the parent to select what sites the kids can go to, and prevents the kids from using IM, chat rooms, and specifies what they can and cannot download as well as who they can send and receive emails from. Each child has their own username and is given an accessibility ranking, totally controlled by the parent..............


You just can't sit next to kids every moment of every day they are on the computer, especially if you have several kids of different ages, so this really does lend some peace of mind knowing that your kids only have whatever access you allow.

B, help me out here. You have kids? You do this shit? I will save any and all opinions I may have on the issue, up and until you provide more information.

Sorry I don't give out my kid info on the net

suffice it to say I support the controls, anything to stop kid predators. pile on as you will.

So, you do all of this, to avoid child predators?

"all of what?" sign up for a DSL service that has good parental controls over internet access? That's not to difficult.

And its not merely predators. The ease with which a 9 year old can access XXX porn is enough of a motivator to have a monitoring system set up for any family that has young kids.

B, Im ejecting. No need to waste everyones time with this.

you were asking.