ISP's suck!!
Looks like I'm off broadband for about a month now and stuck on pay as you go.
First I wanted to migrate from Wanadoo to AOL because Wanadoo was sending me letters andout my usage, that was nearly 3 months ago, nothing was happening, I phoned them, told them about it, still nothing until they told me to wait until my wanadoo account has closed, well it closed yesterday so I phoned up AOL and they said that it would take upto 10 working days for BT to disonnect my BB line unless Wanadoo give me a MAC code. Phoned up wanadoo and they said they don't give MAC codes to closed accounts. So basically I will have to wait for 10 working days for the line to be disconnected, then order a new ISP which will then take at least 10 working days to be reconnected.
A word of advice for those who don't have BB yet, make sure you get yourself a good ISP because changing ISP is complete and utter bitch and migration does not work.
I looked at this site http://www.freedomlist.com/ and got me self a decent dial up for 1p a minute on evenings and week ends at local rates.
The one I got is this http://www.1-2-free.co.uk/ which has connected me at 48KBS which is a better rate then I had on 56K wanadoo and BT.
Anyway I'm on holiday next week :D
First I wanted to migrate from Wanadoo to AOL because Wanadoo was sending me letters andout my usage, that was nearly 3 months ago, nothing was happening, I phoned them, told them about it, still nothing until they told me to wait until my wanadoo account has closed, well it closed yesterday so I phoned up AOL and they said that it would take upto 10 working days for BT to disonnect my BB line unless Wanadoo give me a MAC code. Phoned up wanadoo and they said they don't give MAC codes to closed accounts. So basically I will have to wait for 10 working days for the line to be disconnected, then order a new ISP which will then take at least 10 working days to be reconnected.
A word of advice for those who don't have BB yet, make sure you get yourself a good ISP because changing ISP is complete and utter bitch and migration does not work.
I looked at this site http://www.freedomlist.com/ and got me self a decent dial up for 1p a minute on evenings and week ends at local rates.
The one I got is this http://www.1-2-free.co.uk/ which has connected me at 48KBS which is a better rate then I had on 56K wanadoo and BT.
Anyway I'm on holiday next week :D
posted by shinshade at 7:47 pm
14 Comments:
Poor Shade :(
You have to be careful with these jokers at call centres - you tend to find that they don't have your best interests at heart...
I've heard some *REAL* nightmares about migration, so consider yourself lucky - it could have been a lot, lot worse!
The irony is that they'll probably be hounding you to re-join their ISP again in several weeks time LOL
In the meantime - be strong! Don't think of it as losing a high speed always-on connection; think of it more like a nostalgic trip back to the 'good old days' with BBS, Doom Deathmatches and ASCII....
....On second thoughts....
lol, well I phoned AOL again and I actually got an english person who gave me some straight answers, so now a Broadband order has gone through, I got the e-mail to say that it has gone through and I'm on anytime until it happens. Better then nothing
Indeed it is - though why you chose AOL is beyond me ;)
If it makes you feel any better, my '7 to 14 day' Amazon order hasn't been sent yet - it's been over three weeks now...
haven't used amazon for years, they mess around with delivery times to much for my liking, give them a ring and unleash your fury.
Bah! They've just sent me an email saying they've had problems getting the stock in and delivery will now take another "1 to 2 Weeks"!
It's made me sooooo angry, 'cause I've since seen identical items sold elsewhere which are in-stock and available for 24 hour delivery!!!
Then cancel it.
...because I'm sick of having to go to different stores and spend half an hour performing their sign up process, just to buy a single product and then put up with receiving endless newsletters and special offers via email all the f***king time!
Anyway, the order is still £10 cheaper through Amazon because of free postage and money-off discounts, so I s'pose I shouldn't complain really!
If it's not here by the beginning of September then I *will* cancel it!
lol your are being very patient.
I find that it works better than screaming ....... sometimes ......
Screaming is great you get there attention then. Zelda delayed til 2006 :(
That's not Nintendo's only problem - have you seen the price point of the GB:Micro yet £70!!!!!!
That *MUST* be a bad joke!
Well that was interesting, agreed £70 is too much DS is only £30 more, I was thinging that £50 would be a decent price. X-box 360 from £209 is pretty good.
God! Can't you erase that moron's comment? It's bad enough that my inbox looks like that in the morning!
Anywhoo - Yeah, I was thinking that £50 dead on would have been ideal; by pricing it at £50 rather than £49.99 would have given it a sense of style - IE buying this designer product is unlike buying any other (that all end with 99p). But that's just me for ya'
The £209 price point isn't too bad, but it's more a blind-sighted gesture: everyone knows to be able to play the thing properly will require the £299 model, with early reports on some forums suggesting crazy pre-order ratios of 3:1 in the states (£299 package to £209 package)...
Its gone, perhaps if Nintendo put Play Yan with the Micro it would be more worth while, I suppose your right about the xBox 360 but can you see the PS3 selling at £209? I can't. I got BB back I will make a post tommorow.
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