Welcome to the BusyAOL home page

About the company :

Are you sick and tired of not being able to access America Online because of the constant busy signals ? Is it an enormous burden for you to switch your Email address to another Internet Service Provider because people the world over have your current ????@ aol.com address ? Then we are here to help. What we do is provide you another method to access your America Online account. You simply dial into our number, and then launch your AOL software. You can use any version of AOL that allows a TCP/IP connection. We provide U.S. Robotics 57,600bps modems for the fastest possible dialup connections.

How it works :

The general process will be for you to dial 1-900- BUSYAOL first and establish a connection. Then you launch your software. Since our site has an Internet connection already, you basically come in "through the back door" to AOL . You will use your current screen name and password, just like normal. In fact aside from having to dial our number first, you will never notice a difference. In fact, it may possibly be even faster. And since 900 numbers are accessible nationwide, you never have to worry about the local call scenario.

Pricing :

There are no yearly contracts and no monthly fees. In fact, there are not even any credit cards necessary. We use 900 numbers for dynamic billing. You pay as you use the service. The charge is $1.99 per minute. There is a maximum charge of $25.00 per call, but with a mutual agreement that you will not stay on longer than 30 minutes. By dialing the number, you accept the terms and conditions of this agreement, and allow us to terminate the connection if it runs past 30 minutes. We will give a 5 minute grace period the first time and all other calls will be the 30 minute limit without any grace period.

How to configure TCP/IP connection :

When you start AOL , there is a button called Setup. You will go into there, and write down your current access numbers because you will need to change them. What we are going to do is switch from AOLnet or SprintNet to TCP/IP. This will remove your current access number from the box above. That is the reason you should write it down first. You can leave the second number alone or switch your primary number to the secondary number. Another option you have is to create another location. Your first one may be the default of "home" and you might want to make another one called "busy" or something similar. The next step is to configure the dialer. Since you currently use your AOL software to place the call for you, and now you are not going to use AOL access points anymore, you will need another dialer to access busyaol 's number. The new dialer provided by Microsoft seems to be the best candidate for this, because it works very well, does not require networking to be installed, and of course is free to you. Below are the answers to the questions they will ask durring the setup.