My AOL gets "knocked off" when I click

[Russell Metcalfe]

. . . a new thread... not always but maybe five times. I click, say, a discussion thread and- bingo! I'm off line and AOL is apologizing for error and re- booting. Then I log in again. Has anyone else had this problem; it seems only to happen with this (nice) new forum.
Russ:fav17

[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

Russell, I looked around the internet and can't find anyone reporting vBulletin software causing that kind of problem with AOL. I have never used AOL, so I don't understand the rebooting thing so I may easily be missing something.

Mostly, I wanted you to know that I saw your question -- just don't have an answer for you.


. . . a new thread... not always but maybe five times. I click, say, a discussion thread and- bingo! I'm off line and AOL is apologizing for error and re- booting. Then I log in again. Has anyone else had this problem; it seems only to happen with this (nice) new forum.
Russ:fav17

[Marsha Lynn]

Have you tried opening up Internet Explorer outside of AOL? Your AOL connection should allow you to use a separate browser. I'm not sure how something you were doing in that "outside" browser could interfere with your AOL connection.

I haven't had the problem you describe, but I use AOL primarily as a mail server (it's not our ISP) and rarely use the internal browser.

Marsha

. . . a new thread... not always but maybe five times. I click, say, a discussion thread and- bingo! I'm off line and AOL is apologizing for error and re- booting. Then I log in again. Has anyone else had this problem; it seems only to happen with this (nice) new forum.
Russ:fav17

[Russell Metcalfe]

:bannana :fav18 Russell, I looked around the internet and can't find anyone reporting vBulletin software causing that kind of problem with AOL. I have never used AOL, so I don't understand the rebooting thing so I may easily be missing something.

Mostly, I wanted you to know that I saw your question -- just don't have an answer for you.

Thanks for the response. I am still on dial-up and would like to go to Verizon wireless which is available here; however I am reluctant to change; the technology which used to be my cup of tea now seems somewhat daunting and Mark lives two hours each way-
one of these days I will spring for a new desk-top to go with my Dell notebook and go higher tech and dump AOL.
Thanks again,
Russ:fav18

[Russell Metcalfe]

:basic05 Have you tried opening up Internet Explorer outside of AOL? Your AOL connection should allow you to use a separate browser. I'm not sure how something you were doing in that "outside" browser could interfere with your AOL connection.

I haven't had the problem you describe, but I use AOL primarily as a mail server (it's not our ISP) and rarely use the internal browser.

Marsha


Thanks for the inp[ut Marsha,
I guess I wan't aware I could use the other browsers.. I'll try what you've outlined here. I'm always discovering new stuff my hardware will do-- likelast week I found I could both send and receive faxes with what I have righht here-- didn't know it before-- AND I'm trying to learn to scan and save photos directly from my HP 2610 printer= although it seems to have had a fight with my Dell 810 Inspiron ... ha

Russ :)

[Garth Lahana]

Russell

It may be worth your while to try out another browser? (I have no idea if you can use other browsers with AOL...) Firefox (http://www.mozilla.org) or Opera (http://www.opera.com/) are both good candidates. I've used Firefox for quite some time, and I am happy with it, except for the odd site that insists on me using IE.

Garth