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Re: [LUG] AOL connectivity in Linux

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Subject: Re: [LUG] AOL connectivity in Linux
From: "Ben Goodger" <goodgerster@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 19:59:26 +0100

On 29/06/06, Neil Stone <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

use a bog standard router then.. connect using an ethernet cable, or
wifi and you're off...

It doesn't work. AOL's packet size is 1400 rather than 1500, so that's an extra thing to configure. It doesn't work with ipv6 properly. Disable that. The username system is confusing. Spend hours looking it up. And then spend months wondering why it doesn't work on anything other than port 80 (no portage, no apt, no instant messaging, really slow web browsing...)

If it wasn't for AOL I would have been using Linux eight months early.

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