We had a customer try doing this with us, also. If I remember correctly,
he
also had Windows 3.1something. After fiddling around with it for 5.5 hours
(4 of which were spent on the phone with senior technical support at AOL,
no one could figure out why it wouldn't work. We tried using our ISP as
the connectivity (using an Ascend Max 4004) as well as using a friend's ISP
using all analog modems connected to a PM 2e I think. It didn't work with
them either. We were able to do everything flawlessly as far as the
regular internet was concerned, but when we tried accessing any service of
AOL's, the connection (to AOL through the ISP) eventually timed out and
"disconnected", just as you stated above, though we could still do anything
on the "regular" net. We had tried using a few different winsock.dll files
(aol, shiva's, etc.) and all of them produced identical results. We never
did figure out why it wouldn't work...
Josh Hillman
hillman@talstar.com