Re:Back with a new server!
[quote=”3.14″]My two cents. For me it is not the wandering IP address that presents a problem. I use dial-up with a new IP every time and never had a problem with phpBB2. [/quote]
The wandering IP with AOL is per page (or is it timed now?), not per session. Basic dialup IPs are per session, so when the script checks for cookies you are still in the same IP as long as you remain connected. AOL users aren’t so the scripts see them as different computers every time they move.
Conspiracy theory: In addition, the AOL browser is designed to keep people using AOL. It’s unlikely they will change it any time soon because as long as people get frustrated when they leave AOL’s circle, most of them will just give up without saying anything and stick to AOL pages. Less than 1% of people with a complaint will actually say anything about it, and since many AOL users are beginners or not into the tech stuff they assume the problems are with the sites they visit because a company as large and popular as AOL couldn’t possibly be the problem.
(Can you tell I used to have AOL and I’ve had this discussion many times? 🙄 My ISP has trouble with newsgroups and sometimes pages in Britain come up blank, but at least I can communicate outside of it.)
When Mr. Pet worked for Gateway tech, he had a woman call who said that AOL told her to call Gateway because the reason she was having trouble with all the pages she tried to visit was because she had [i]too much memory[/i]. That’s not the only time they swung people, but that was the weirdest.
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