I don't know if I'm the only person left in the world not playing console games online, but I seem to be stuck in the stone ages with my craptastic ISP.
Anyone who has ever had to use AOL should know that to even utilize the internet, you must be signed into an AOL account.
This is where my problem lies, I can get the PS3 to connect to my wireless network, but not actually get on the internet.
My only idea left is to run a proxy server through my PC (signed into AOL using AOL dialer) and connect through that, but even then I have to buy an extra piece of hardware just to use the PC as a host.
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Why stay with AOL at all? AOL Broadband? Even if you abandon them as an ISP, I imagine that you can still keep AOL email addresses.
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Believe me, as soon as my girlfriend and I move, we're changing ISPs.
I don't even have an AOL email address
Seems strange that AOL/TimeWarner would have their network set up this way.
Ditch AOL asap.
I didn't even know AOL was still around!
Yes, unfortunately for all of us (mostly me), they are part of a giant media conglomerate now.
I was unaware anyone still used AOL
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Yeah, my girlfriend's mom has been using the same ISP since they freakin' invented the internet.
She tells me stories about how she paid by the hour and would rack up gigantic bills playing her favorite MUD: Gemstone IV
(which she stills plays btw >.<)
I too am stuck with aol or any other dial up. I live in a rural area where my only other current option is Sattelite internet (Hughesnet or wildblue) Which is super expensive and I hear not very reliable. But comcast recently started running line on the highway about a mile from my house. I'm hoping they'll start branching this way soon. I've had my wii and 360 for about a year and I'm dying to get them online. I love owning a house in the country but the internet thing really sux.
I never knew AOL still existed. Once they stopped sending me discs in the mail every week I assumed they died a deserved painful death.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAH AOL I HAVE BEATEN YOU!
I'd been trying to enable ICS (internet connection sharing) for a while now, but I was having trouble with my integrated network interface. That is, it wasn't showing up in my device manager. After spending an hour watching some outsourced retard click around my computer doing nothing helpful, the rep. instructed me to disable my diskette drive from CMOS. He then told me he'd call me tomorrow to see if it was working.
But even that didn't work.
But then it hit me! Perhaps the integrated network interface was disabled in CMOS?! Turns out it was.
Once I got my PS3 talkin' to my PC, setting up ICS was a breeze from there.
Downloading the latest PS3 firmware update as I write.
I am SO psyched.
LameAssTheMity:Anyone who has ever had to use AOL should know that to even utilize the internet, you must be signed into an AOL account.
....console game patches are fail....
LameAssTheMity: Yeah, my girlfriend's mom has been using the same ISP since they freakin' invented the internet. She tells me stories about how she paid by the hour and would rack up gigantic bills playing her favorite MUD: Gemstone IV (which she stills plays btw >.<)
Holy crap, I had to comment on this. I remember back when I would have to write down how much time I used on the internet (AOL) because I would rack up a lot playing Gemstone III (it was 3 back in my day, lol)
Anyway, I've never heard of anyone else playing that game, so I just had to comment