ISP's - Any to avoid?

This is probably not the right forum to ask something of this nature, but I wasn't sure where else to do it, so I apologize up front. Anyway, my local ISP has sold to one of the national companies, EarthLink, if I'm not mistaken; however, I'm trying to find out if there are any of these big ISPs I should steer clear of?

Here's the ones I've been considering: Earthlink, Netzero, PeoplePC, Mailaka & Juno. Have you heard bad reports about any of these or problems with embedded adware, spyware, etc. in their software?

Thanks again for your help and again I apologize if I posted this in the wrong forum.

Have a good day all

Yeah. Avoid AOL.

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Never mind the ISP your on its certain IP's you want to avoid and ports like 443, 137,138,139 and a host of others.

Any IP from Germany if you online game is a good IP to ban the 0.0.0.0. - 0.0.255.255 range out of.

Same goes for Belgium, China and the land down under Oztralia (Australia)

Certain IP numbers from Florida especially Fort Lauderdale are not to be trusted and almost any IP out of California is a good one to ban.

Any IP out of San Francisco is definitely a good idea to ban the range on especially if it's off the attbi.com network.

Of course this is all a myth and no one has to believe it just check your fire wall logs if you want proof. smirk....

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As usual your post is useless.

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My first switch was to netzero which was pretty damn good back when it was free. Don't know now.

Then I just flipped through the phonebook and got one for $5 or $8 a month. That one rocked.

Point being is that compared to AOL anything is better.

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There was a hack to get rid of the banners. It was pretty good without them.

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no clue. it's been years.

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Hahaha! Maaaaan, I mentioned AOL first as a joke, figuring anybody here would know enough to avoid it (except SoD, of course). I never expected to see a serious discussion about it. Just figured you guys would tell me, "Yeah, no shite, mofo!"

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OK then...

Yeah, no shite, mofo!

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I dread to think what's in some of the small print I've happily agreed to in the past ...

Who always reads it anyway? It just sends you to sleep if you try.

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Fu<b></b>ck, you're an idiot.

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