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1. Comment - Report: AOL Considering Free Access

   (Jul 7, 2006 - 12:09 AM)

   Go ahead & use AOL if you want to slow your computer down. A friend of mine is a computer tech & runs his own company building computers. He has a lot of diagnostic equipment. He had trouble figuring out why some of the computers he was building, identical in every way except that some had AOL installed, were running slower than the others. It turns out that once you install their software, AOL uses some of your bandwidth... steals it actually, because they don't ask your permission before doing so and you don't get compensated for it. He spent hours on the phone arguing with AOL techs and their supervisors before they finally admitted to the practice. The very existance of AOL depends upon them stealing your available bandwidth once you join their collective to assure that everybody has at least a fairly fast connection.