ISP, I'm on there now, BT broadband, and kazaa.
AOL BROADBAND
by ScoobySnax 18 Replies latest social entertainment
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ISP
Neat Ballistic......Kazaa is pretty good for all sorts of stuff. I downloaded 8 mile the other day!
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ballistic
I'm downloading gigabytes, I am purposefully downloading stuff I dont know also. I went out and bought 2 copies of Avril Lavignes album for me and my sister after sampling it on kazaa. Excellent album. Hope you don't find me on there or you might see all the other rubbish I've downloaded.
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ISP
I'd change your ID......quick!
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ballistic
I'll say what I said when I went into the operating room recently and the student-looking doctor approached me after I'd consumed a glass of very strong pre-med and said, "hello I'm you're surgeon for today."
..."oh, no"
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Xander
If by 'most Microsoft operating systems' you mean Win95, then I agree.
If you mean Win98, Win98SE, WinME, WinNT, Win2K, or WinXP, then I disagree. They are all pretty well optimized for broadband (well, LAN, actually). What they are NOT optimized for are modems, hence the tweak guides you see everywhere.
As to AOL....oh, I wouldn't be surprised if they block the ports used by Morpheus or Kazaa or a bunch of other stuff. Don't like AOL at all. MSN, on the other hand, is another mass market-aimed ISP that actually treats their users intelligently. Granted, the DSL router they sent me did block the inbound FTP port, but, ehhh...there are ways around that . Other than that, I've found them quite acceptable for broadband. Kazaa, eDonkey, IRC, ICQ, etc all work. It's fast, it's always on, and it's reliable.
It's also a bit more pricey. I don't recall what the introductory rate for it was, but I'm out of that now and paying something like $49.99 a month, which is kinda steep. Both the wife and I consider it worth it, and if the budget every became REALLY tight, DirecTV and the paper go first, so....it's that nice.
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ballistic
Do you think we'll ever plug broadband into your head, I mean the computer just gets in the way, doesn't it.
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Xander
It'd sure be nice.
Not sure how online gaming would work, then...
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ScoobySnax
You mean AOL may block through filters sites like Morpheous? Damn!....that was the whole point of me getting Broadband DSL in the first place so I could download music faster! Grrrrrrrrr....