I have had internet access troubles for about a week now. Finally after talking to many, many people at earthlink they determined that I need to pay them $249.oo to "fix" some sort of problem and then I need to buy a new modem for $149 plus another one year committment to them. I've not been happy with their service for quite some time so I wasn't about to pony up $400 for something I don't like.
Soooo . . . we are switching to SBC and getting Dish TV, DSL, phone service & a Cingular cell phone for less than what we were paying for DSL, phone & cell phone. Everything is sort of connected and if you get phone service, you get a discount on the DSL, then if you get the DSL, you get a discount on the Dish service, and so on.
But. . . (there's always a but) earthlink buys their DSL service from SBC. So we can't get the SBC service until earthlink cancels our service. Well earthlink will only cancel our service on our billing date which is the 25th. So from now until the 25th, we don't have DSL at our house. I think I can use the earthlink dial up service but only for 20 hours a month & I have to find one of those stupid CD's with earthlink dial up on it. Yesterday I went to Kinko's and used their internet long enough to change all my e-mail addresses on everything so I would quit getting e-mails sent to my earthlink accounts. My daughter was kind enough to let me use her dial up to check e-mails and post here. But she is not always here when I need to use the internet so these little check ins will be few and far between.
I'll have to post later about our Xmas and New Year's celebrations. We really did have a good time. Got to see my whole family for Xmas. We attended the Miller Brewing New Year's party and found out that we are really bad at Black Jack! LOL
I'll blog again when I get a chance. Until then, don't miss me too much my blogging buddies! :)
we have the same sbc set up - took them eons to install it though! (Ok, like 2 weeks, but it was two loooooong weeks!)
It's nice to get just the one bill for all of that stuff- simplifies life :-)
Posted by: Lou | January 09, 2006 at 03:03 PM