AOL Broadband offers (merged threads)

deanos

LOL not as good as mine they added £65 to my account :rotfl:

rogerramjet

Just an update....after signing up for a migration on the 31 August 2006, AOL have finally migrated me today (10 October 2006) I just hope things get better from now on.

sak46

Hello


I have just phoned and reduced the cost of our aol broadband connection, we were paying 24.99 per month for aol gold, she offered me platinum up to 8mg for 24.99 but I declined and she offered gold at 19.99 and she is also going to send us a free router.

Hope this helps

gav123_3

i was also offered plat at £24.99 bin on gold at £19.99 for 2 years..i was having trouble with plat so they gave me extendid cooling of periods until they sorted my line out but in the end i decided enough is enough with the rumours of aol selling up and line problems not getting the right speed etc so asked them to put me back on gold with no 12month contract...now back on aol gold but stil got an upload speed of platinum + they gave me the router aswell..so all in all im happy

traceya89

with aol silver can 3 computers be on line at the same time? my contract is up for aol platinum which is 24.99 a month (unbeknown to me i have just discovered i have been charged 2.49 for the last year for mcafee!) i have been offfered aol platinum for 19.99 a month but i do not think this saving is enough. anyone had any better ideas, thought might be like digital sky savings!!

regarding the 2.49 for mcafee, i have never noticed this on my bank statements and i certainly would not subscribe to it as i already have it on my computer (or something similar). any idea how i can get a refund on this.

espresso

traceya89 wrote:

with aol silver can 3 computers be on line at the same time?.........

Of course they can! AOL are offering a free wireless router on the Silver package for £14.99 per month although some users have got this for £9.99. Have you not seen the TV adverts! If you already have your own anti-virus and it is up to date, tell them that you don't want the McAfee included and have it removed from you invoice.

HTH

Harrietxxx

Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me?

I have been trying to go from dial up to gold service with AOL. I have an NTL phone line and they have done their bit and installed the modem on behalf of AOL but despite several phone calls I have got no further with pin no or activation. The only reason I stayed with AOL was to keep the email accounts but someone has told me that for £3 a month you can keep the addresses even if aol is not your broadband provider. Anyone know if this is true? because if it is I am tempted to cancel and sign up with NTL which would work out cheaper.

Any insight would be appreciated

Cheers

Red_Dave

I'm enquiring for my brother-in-law's family.

• They're low usage users
• They're currently with BT broadband
• They've got the wireless router that came with their BT broadband order
• I think they're on a 2Mb service, but 1Mb would be adequate
• They'd prefer an unlimited service or a service with a reasonable included amount of data so they know how much they're going to be spending.

My research suggests:

AOL Broadband Silver:

• No migration in charge
• £14.99/month for a 1Mb unlimited data service
• First month free
• £35 cashback from Quidco
• No contract period (since migrating and bringing existing equipment with them

So, over 12 months (just for comparison, since there's no contractual obligations), the effective cost would be £10.83/month (((£14.99*11) - £35) / 12).

Other than AOL's poor support, are there any pitfalls which I haven't spotted? For instance, are migrations out free, etc.?

It does look like all of AOLs broadband products are on ADSL Max, and that the bandwidth is simply limited at their end. Is this right?

I don't want them to have to use any AOL proprietary software, so I intend to just plug in their AOL ADSL username/password to the router and then they'll be up and running. But (not being an AOL user), it is compulsory/necessary or even recommended (by users, not AOL of course!) to use AOL's software?

I'd also much prefer it if they weren't tied in to a contract since the broadband market is so competitive these days and it won't be long before £11/month is beatable (by a better company with a better product hopefully!).

Thanks in advance,
RDD.

gazza975526570

i think its a good call not to get tied in at the moment as there is bound to be some great offers just round the corner.

No, there is no necessity to use AOL software - im with them and dont use it.

I however manager to get unlimited silver for £9.99 a month with AOL.

DjSatansfury

theyve just been bought by carphone warehouse aka talk talk