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5680 and AOL

post #1 of 16
11/28/03 at 11:08pm
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now i know alot of you guys dislike aol but i use it when im traveling, usually for soccer, and i want to connect to the internet. It works fine on my dad's t30 but on mine it will dial 9 to get out of the hotel but as soon as it dials the first number to find access numbers, it gets a weird busy signal, ive looked up troubleshooting on aol on my dads laptop but it is worthless. Can anyone help?!?!
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post #2 of 16
11/28/03 at 11:40pm
Hmmm....You shouldn't be using AOL anyway! AOL is for women who want to chat and shop. It's not for serious users! LOL!

But since you are using it, are you sure you're dialing a valid access number for AOL?
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post #3 of 16
11/28/03 at 11:45pm
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fyi, this account has been used by my parents on trips... we have dsl at home and it can connect to aol on my dads, if you read, therefore it is a valid access number and #2 i cant even get it to type in an access code, in the new version of aol, it wants to auto-find nearest access codes and when it dials in to do so it gets the weird busy signal, im verrry confused please help!! ..hates aol
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post #4 of 16
11/28/03 at 11:53pm
OK, you seem repentant enough for using AOL. How about an earlier version? Try 8.0.
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post #5 of 16
11/29/03 at 12:48am
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..one problem, can't connect to the internet to get an older version... SOMEONE HELP!!! This sucks...
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post #6 of 16
11/29/03 at 1:00am
There's probably about 50 million 8.0 CD's out there! Don't you know anyone who has one?
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post #7 of 16
11/29/03 at 2:08am
OK, I've run into this before using other ISP's at hotels.

First, make sure you're using the right number to access an outside line. Usually this is 9 for local calls and 8 for long distance.

If you are using the right number and you still get a wierd busy signal it could mean that the hotel you're staying at has a limited number of lines and none are available.

Try dialing the number that AOL is trying to dial yourself to see if you can make th call using just the phone. It may be that you just have to wait a while. If you make you call during off-peak times you will probably have better success.
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post #8 of 16
11/29/03 at 2:20am
For one thing, dialing out via a hotel internet line is EXPENSIVE, so why bother? Even those prepaid phone cards are cheaper!

But yeah, it sounds like you are dialing the wrong number to get outside lines.
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post #9 of 16
11/29/03 at 3:11am
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Originally Posted by JeffL
For one thing, dialing out via a hotel internet line is EXPENSIVE, so why bother? Even those prepaid phone cards are cheaper!

But yeah, it sounds like you are dialing the wrong number to get outside lines.

National ISP's like AOL and Earthlink (and even NetZero) have local phone numbers all over the country.

I travel a lot for business and I use Earthlink. Almost always I can find a local number. So using dial-up in hotels almost always costs nothing except whatever the monthly price of an ISP account happens to be.
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post #10 of 16
11/29/03 at 10:39am
I have had a similiar problem. Mostly due to the hotels phone system taking forever to connect to the outside line. Try adding a pause after your comp dials the 9 for an outside line, (if I remember correctly it is a comma). So your dial string would look like 9,18005551212. Had this problem A LONG time ago, so I may be way off the mark.
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post #11 of 16
11/29/03 at 11:20am
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Originally Posted by welterbf
There's probably about 50 million 8.0 CD's out there! Don't you know anyone who has one?
I have an AOL 3.0 CD, from my old macintosh, from about 7 years ago. Life was good then, when I was to young to remember anything
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post #12 of 16
11/30/03 at 12:08am
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1. im on a trip therefore can't get ahold of cd
2. yea it was said before it doesnt cost extra for long distance
3. I added pauses but as soon as it dials the first number it gets the busy signal
4. Im not actually dialing a valid access code, its searching for them, so i cant call it to see if thats the problem...

anyways it doesnt matter as we lost in the semis and im going home on sunday... back to high speed yay!
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post #13 of 16
11/30/03 at 3:00pm
Just curious; Most of the big/nice hotels out there provide high speed access now. Is that simply too expensive? Has anyone tried this?
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post #14 of 16
11/30/03 at 3:43pm
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Originally Posted by mmarkin
Just curious; Most of the big/nice hotels out there provide high speed access now. Is that simply too expensive? Has anyone tried this?
You have to define "big/nice"!

I spend at least 6 months out of the year on the road. We stay in mid priced hotels, along the lines of Comfort Inn or Holiday Inn or Hampton Inn etc.

I can safely say that most of those hotels do NOT supply high speed access. And the ones that do charge an exhorbitant fee (I remember one hotel wanted $6.00 per night and you had to use the TV set!).

Broadband is coming to travelers, but slowly.
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post #15 of 16
11/30/03 at 4:29pm
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yea im back now on highspeed, i still dont know what the problem was but the reason there wasnt a highspeed internet access in my room cuz it was really cheap, traveling for soccer tournaments is not a reason to spend lots of money on the hotels...
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post #16 of 16
11/30/03 at 6:57pm
Point taken
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