What has AOL done to my site???

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MJ

Finally got my site published. Thank you for all your
help.

Anyway,I'm having serious problems with the AOL service.
I have extremely slow access/timeouts to my site using
the URL but can access with no problem using the IP
address. Worked with AOL last week to get it
straightened out. Guess it didn't get fixed after all.
I have a streaming audio file on the site converted for
RealPlayer use and until last week all was well. When you
opened the file-RealPlayer opened, started buffering
rather quickly and wrked fine. Now when I open the
file, "AOL Player" opens with all their advertising and
it takes forever to buffer. I'm afraid any visitors or
clients accesing the site will just leave. I have not
given anyone permission to advertise on my site. Is this
legal? Any suggestions?

Thanks,
MJ
 
Why would you use AOL? Oh god. Run, Jump, Fly, Click over to www.webhostingtalk.com and put a
request in their Request Forum. Just ask for tiny space, low bandwidth, and a FREE host. You'll
get responses. ANything is better than AOL.
 
Finally got my site published. Thank you for all your
help.

Anyway,I'm having serious problems with the AOL service.
I have extremely slow access/timeouts to my site using
the URL but can access with no problem using the IP
address. Worked with AOL last week to get it
straightened out. Guess it didn't get fixed after all.
I have a streaming audio file on the site converted for
RealPlayer use and until last week all was well. When you
opened the file-RealPlayer opened, started buffering
rather quickly and wrked fine. Now when I open the
file, "AOL Player" opens with all their advertising and
it takes forever to buffer. I'm afraid any visitors or
clients accesing the site will just leave. I have not
given anyone permission to advertise on my site. Is this
legal? Any suggestions?

Thanks,
MJ
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Yes! Escape AOL! They are the worst ISP out there and who would want them
to host a site? Not even Time Warner uses them for internet service
anymore. By the way, when using a friend's machine running AOL, I noticed
anytime I tried using IE to browse download time for pages was incredibley
slow. And he had the DSL service!
 
That's why I pay the big bucks to my ISP host. NOT AOL.
They have big pipes and NO advertising.

JimL
 
AOL does not "host" my site. And my host company says
they're allowed to do that. Does anyone know any html
code that will prevent them from doing that? I'm paying
for the site space, not them.

MJ
 
If you are accessing your site with AOL's browser then they control how you
see the web. If you don't like them doing this, then you need to find
another ISP for connecting to the internet. However any AOL user coming to
your site will have the same problems.

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| AOL does not "host" my site. And my host company says
| they're allowed to do that. Does anyone know any html
| code that will prevent them from doing that? I'm paying
| for the site space, not them.
|
| MJ
| >-----Original Message-----
| >
| >That's why I pay the big bucks to my ISP host. NOT AOL.
| >They have big pipes and NO advertising.
| >
| >JimL
| >
| >
| >
| >
| >On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 06:12:43 -0700, "MJ"
| <[email protected]>
| >wrote:
| >
| >>Finally got my site published. Thank you for all your
| >>help.
| >>
| >>Anyway,I'm having serious problems with the AOL
| service.
| >>I have extremely slow access/timeouts to my site using
| >>the URL but can access with no problem using the IP
| >>address. Worked with AOL last week to get it
| >>straightened out. Guess it didn't get fixed after
| all.
| >>I have a streaming audio file on the site converted for
| >>RealPlayer use and until last week all was well. When
| you
| >>opened the file-RealPlayer opened, started buffering
| >>rather quickly and wrked fine. Now when I open the
| >>file, "AOL Player" opens with all their advertising and
| >>it takes forever to buffer. I'm afraid any visitors or
| >>clients accesing the site will just leave. I have not
| >>given anyone permission to advertise on my site. Is
| this
| >>legal? Any suggestions?
| >>
| >>Thanks,
| >>MJ
| >>
| >
| >.
| >
 
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