Compuserve

Pros: has instant message that can talk with aol
Cons: slow connection

Compuserve is not a bad system at all. I'm on it all the time. I was actually very surprised that it had instant messaging. I thought I was going to have to download aol instant messaging. Another good part is the mail center. It makes it extremely...

Pros: None available since it doesn't work
Cons: Compatibility with Windows 98 is questionable

Assured by the salesman at Circuit City, I opted for a one year subscription to Compuserve as a requirement for an in-house credit of $400. The service, he said, was the premiere ISP and the newest software, Compuserve 2000, was easy to use. He...

Pros: You're connected to the internet
Cons: See my epinion

What a company...have a problem and they tell you basically too bad.
This all started about 8 months ago with the purchase of my computer. No, thank God I did not fall into the 3 year contract, $400. rebate scam.
Instead, when I purchased the...

Pros: none
Cons: read my review

I purchased a computer. This computer had a mail in rebate of $300.00 if I signed a contract with compuserve. I was fully prepared to pay the advertised price for my computer and was not made aware of this offer until I was talking with a salesperson. It...

Pros: ummm...free useless CD
Cons: I don't want to pay more

Compuserve 2000 is the most annoying upgrade in the history of upgrades. I have stuck with compuserve since about '92. 76761,205 is my member number, and your are damned if you forget your number.

So when an upgrade to the balky system came...

Pros: Ease of use, pricing plans
Cons: Pricing plans, still has a business feel to it

OK, as a member of Compuserve for over 7 years, I have yet to find a better online service in integrity. Now, CS2000 software is nothing more than AOL v4.0 with a different interface (as CSi is a division of AOL), Compuserve Classic software is still...

Pros: Many node
Cons: Poor service

I was taught to say something nice or to say nothing at all. However, that's hard to do with CompuServe. The only good feature of this service is that there are phone numbers world-wide. However, that doesn't mean that they always work.

It's...

Pros: Is business friendly, works the best overseas.
Cons: does not have some of the perks that other products of this type have.

Although the well known AOL be the most popular, what about this little sister company of theirs? Compuserve, happens to work just as accurately as AOL and perhaps even better overseas. When I used compuserve, I not only was able to write e-mails, I...

Pros: increasingly few
Cons: price, association w/AOL, customer service

I used to be a big fan of CompuServe, but they seem to have become increasingly evil ever since AOL took over. I’ve been inaccurately billed, received more spam, and had more access problems since that fateful day. Their customer service used to be...

Pros: Worldwide presence
Cons: Dorky CompuServe 5000, dying forums

I go way back with CompuServe, back to the days of off-line readers, a text-based interface, and numbers for e-mail addresses. Since the purchase of CompuServe by AOL, it has slowly died. Most of us expected AOL just to kill off CompuServe for its...

Pros: Ease of use
Cons: Terrible connecting, web pages are hard to view, just not worth your money overall

I generally agree with everyone's opinion of CS... do not get it! When we bought our new HP Pavilion at Circuit City, you could get something like a $400 rebate right off the price of the computer, in return for a three year CS contract. Seemed like a...

Pros: unlimited access
Cons: not a reliable connection

About five months ago my husband and I decided it was time to get a computer for the house. We searched all over and looked at many different systems and all of a sudden we saw the holy grail.... (or at least we thought) a $400 rebate on a $900 system....

Pros: Nationwide dial up numbers
Cons: everything but the numerous access numbers.

Like several thousand other folks, I was shopping at a local Electronics store. The salesman informed me of this GREAT deal that Compuserve was offering. It even allowed me to get my purchase for free. Granted I had to sign a 3 year contract with...

Pros: It isn't too expensive
Cons: It sucks in general

My family used Compuserve for about a month. Then we canceled and got the real internet.
Compuserve is, in my opinion, one of the worst Internet Service Providers out there. Dial up was slow. If you are lucky enough to actually connect, it doesn't...

Pros: Absolutely NONE that I can find.
Cons: Expensive, shoddy tech support, terrible product quality, too many to mention.

I fell for the $400 rebate offer from CompuServe when buying my computer. I have since learned that of all the paid ISP's CompuServe has the distinction of being the absolute worst of the lot. Even it's sister company America Online provides better...