AOL Broadband
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With AOL 9.0 broadbandyou get great performance,
integrated services like email anti-virus scanning, instant messaging and music
and sports coverage. With 4 all-inclusive products, covering dial-up and
broadband, you choose what suits you. Each has one all-inclusive monthly fee, a
free helpline and no download or time restrictions.
AOL Broadband
Gold
AOL is the only provider that gives you the choice to connect
to a high speed broadband package via either ADSL or cable. AOL Broadband Gold
is available at speeds of up to 1Mbps via ADSL or cable.
In the UK, the
most widely available type of broadband service runs over a normal telephone
line, and is known as ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line). ADSL is
supplied by BT, and since the end of May 2002, it has been available to more
than two-thirds of the UK population. AOL then supplies AOL Broadband services
using this technology.
Broadband is also available via cable modem. In
this case it connects the home computer to the Internet via a high-speed cable
modem using ntl's cable network.
Whichever option you take, you will get
the same high-speed Internet access and the same exclusive AOL Broadband
content.
AOL Broadband Silver and AOL Broadband
Platinum
These services are only available if you have a BT
telephone line.
AOL broadband - additional benefits
With
AOL broadband, extra benefits include McAfee firewall protection as standard,
an instant messaging service called AOL superbuddy and AOL talk - allowing you
to talk to your family and friends directly via your computer. As standard, AOL
also provides anti-virus, spam filters, pop-up blockers and parental
controls.
Gold and Platinum subscribers also benefit from Home
networking† support so that several computers in your home can share your
connection.
†Support offered on specific routers only. AOL does not
currently support home networking for cable broadband users.