# Why is AOL Stupid? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 4, 2001, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-aol-stupid/85311 "2001-10-04T02:28:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![saepiroth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@saepiroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saepiroth)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-aol-stupid/85311/21 "2001-10-05T00:20:17Z")
no, PVP doesn’t have magic fairy people to make it’s webpage work, it uses _S_elf reloading banners like everyone else. ---
**Author:** ![mancunian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mancunian/32/12244_2.png) [@mancunian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mancunian)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-aol-stupid/85311/22 "2001-10-05T11:03:14Z")
Forgive my ignorance, but whats PVP. ---
**Author:** ![saepiroth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@saepiroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saepiroth)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-aol-stupid/85311/23 "2001-10-05T11:29:19Z")
PVP is Player Vs. Player; a webcomic. one of the most popular pure webcomics there is, in fact. it manages to actually accumulate income, which is a lot more than most of 'em can say. it’s right over [here](http://www.pvponline.com/). ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-aol-stupid/85311/24 "2001-10-05T12:58:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jefnixon \* > \*\*Another problem with AOL is that if you try and have a game of Quake, or whatever, with somebody over the internet, the bastard thing locks up and cuts you off! > > AOL “do what with our bandwidth (that you pay £15.00 a month for), you must be joking” ☹ > > Does anyone else have this problem?? > > Oh, and I have to refresh the page every other website > > I think, a 512k cable modem is going to have to be installed soon. 🙂 \*\* I’ve had no problem accessing, and staying accessed to, BNet via AOL. I have encountered some lag due to having a dialup but nothing seroius. I also need to refresh the page approximately every 100 sites. ---
**Author:** ![Servo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@Servo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Servo)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-aol-stupid/85311/25 "2001-10-05T13:33:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jeff Olsen \* > \*\*😕 > Then when AOL dials up, what’s the “connected at 115600” all about? \*\* I believe what it’s actually reporting is your connection speed between the terminal (your computer) and the modem. The number pretty much means nothing because the connection between you and AOL’s POP, over the phone line, is _much_ slower. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-aol-stupid/85311/26 "2001-10-05T13:34:30Z")
It’s just so, i can’t figure out where to begin… IT IS THE EVIL SPAWN OF SATAN!!! It’s the tool of the evil soccer mom grandma e-mailing freaks of america. I burn the free aol cds that i get in the mail, they look funny in the microwave… DEATH TO AOL AND ALL OF IT’S FOLLOWERS!!! ---
**Author:** ![Searching\_For\_Truth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Searching\_For\_Truth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Searching_For_Truth)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-aol-stupid/85311/27 "2001-10-06T00:45:13Z")
Wow, maybe I should have put this in The Pit. Yikes, people. ---
**Author:** ![VenusGirlTrap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/58956e/32.png) [@VenusGirlTrap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VenusGirlTrap)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-aol-stupid/85311/28 "2001-10-06T01:04:45Z")
Try to cancel AOL and then see why they suck ass! They will not let you cancel, they sent my mom to collections before they would cancel her account. Plus, everytime we called there we would get this “Sorry, you are at the wrong dept.” thing five times before we would be transfered to the right dept. Cable modem with Road Runner rules, it’s about $17 bucks more and very worth it! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-aol-stupid/85311.md?page=1)