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To: Richard Ball who wrote (451)	10/30/1996 7:41:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	of 13594

Actually AOL is a very slow Net connection, they know it, so what do they naturally do, some might say they lie: From recent Netley News: pathfinder.com@@w*EjNQUAqDsQylGm/Netly/daily/961002.html "Since all user commands must first pass through machines in Virginia, AOL reduces the quality of graphics to soup up performance. Some web pages are even cached in Virginia. Which didn't help the staffer who was demonstrating AOL's online shopping capabilities. "You enter the Internet Connection, and you go to the Internet Connection Store..." he told one visitor. There was a long pause. "Someday it lets you get to the Internet Connection Store." "It is so slow," an onlooker complained." "But it did seem faster than usual. Indeed, it seemed so much faster than the old, non-Internet AOL browser that I ducked back into the PR trailer to log on and check out some AOL web pages. "How fast is this connection?" I asked AOL's demonstrator. "I don't know," he complained sullenly. Something funny was going on here. "How fast is this connection?" I asked the PR manager. "It's TCP/IP," she said. "But how fast is it?" "I'll need to check." "We finally found our answer through a webmaster who had attended the Denver AOL pitstop. While visiting the demo trailer, he'd tracked down their network operator. And the mystery was solved: The trailer's 25 computers had been hooked up via ISDN to a real service provider -- it wasn't AOL." Since AOL has proven time and again it cannot provide fast, reliable service, they have at least shown a way to all - use a REAL ISP! What's uncanny is that no matter how many times AOL gets caught with its pants down there are boosters who can't see it. No wonder they have been called a "cult". Regards

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