Online travails
One shouldn’t make fun of stuff one is getting for free, but AOL is just a ridiculous experience, at least the German version for Mac I’m using on my PowerBook. I had to resort to this measure since it takes Deutsche Telekom (sorry, “T-Com”) a full 14 days to establish a DSL connection even when the phone line is already there. They send you the splitter and router by mail! In any case, I’m starting to understand what some people mean when they talk about the internet being a boring place.
It’s all horribly corporate — some cubicle-dweller’s idea of “fun” — and ugly and cuts the connection every twenty minutes or so, though I’m not sure that’s necessarily AOL’s fault.
Be that as it may, I thought it would have been a nice gesture of T-Com to offer free dial-up while one is waiting for DSL to come, but hey…
