OK I confess. I was a real dummy when I started with AOL in 1996, but I'm still there and not a whole lot smarter. I don't notice too many pop ups (certainly not as many as on Lucianne! Ugh!)
Do you have another suggestion for a service that I can access both at home and at work? At work we have own own provider, and we use Internet Explorer to access the Web and Outlook for e-mail -- but I can access my AOL account through IE, and that's really convenient.
I suggest Earthlink. I had them for several years without any problems. They tend to leave you alone once you're hooked up, and they're national with lots of dial-up numbers. When I had dial-up, I never had busy signals (this is in Seattle) or problems staying connected. I'd be using them now for my DSL except that Verizon has locked them out of the area.
Tuor