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Have now changed to BT
daisydee
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After 12 years with AOL, have now changed to BT. The change over was pretty smooth, nothing like the horror stories I have read on here. I lost my internet connection around 9.0am, the new hub arrived at mid day and I was online again as soon as it was all connected.
After being with the same Provider for so long, it was a huge change, which I am still getting used to. Why are we wiser after the event? i can now see the advantage of having a separate email account - wish someone had pointed this out to me before. I shall now keep all my regular sites in a 'cloud' or similar account so that I don't have to keep informing people of my change of email address. My neighbour was saying he didn't fancy all that hassle when changing Providers, so at least I was able to give him the benefit of my new found wisdom.
Everything is different, email wise, with Bt and still finding my way around, I did like AOL's email set up and I have lost so much info by changing. But heyho it is done now and it has been quite a learning curve. I shall save £120 on monthly charges for the next 12 months, but it remains to be seen whether or not it will be worth it. :kitty:
After being with the same Provider for so long, it was a huge change, which I am still getting used to. Why are we wiser after the event? i can now see the advantage of having a separate email account - wish someone had pointed this out to me before. I shall now keep all my regular sites in a 'cloud' or similar account so that I don't have to keep informing people of my change of email address. My neighbour was saying he didn't fancy all that hassle when changing Providers, so at least I was able to give him the benefit of my new found wisdom.
Everything is different, email wise, with Bt and still finding my way around, I did like AOL's email set up and I have lost so much info by changing. But heyho it is done now and it has been quite a learning curve. I shall save £120 on monthly charges for the next 12 months, but it remains to be seen whether or not it will be worth it. :kitty:
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Having an AOL email address is not so bad as you can still use it even if you are not with AOL, I have still got one from years ago, it is providers like BT, Talk Talk and sky where it is a problem to have an email address linked to them. But years ago that is what we did, we did not know much better, certainly in the days of dial up.
Lots of free services for email, Google with Gmail, Microsoft with their outlook, Yahoo, GMX and others. I have my own domain and have an email address linked to it, but i pay each year for that.
i have not been with Bt for years, they mucked me around the last time I was with them and their customer service stinks and BT is one of the most expensive providers to be honesty. I am with Plusnet, while they belong to BT, they are run as a separate company and is cheaper than BT. I am having a look around now that my contract is out with Plusnet, Vodafone looks ok, but got a few things I need to look at first.