AOL beats the hell out of MSN in my area. Getting a crappy third party provider is just asking for trouble. They mostly suck. They have no features. Sure, I could get netzero and download 50 free programs that do all the extra stuff AOL does, but that would suck, because I'd have 50 programs running on my computer. I'd drop AOL in a sedcond for a high-speed provider is there was one in my area.