istop

[Jeremy Baker]

On Friday 16 April 2004 21:54, Fraser Campbell wrote:
> On Friday 16 April 2004 19:17, Noah John Gellner wrote:
> > My question is, what experiences have people had switching services from
> > sympatico/ golden / whoever. I would like to make the switch for next
> > month, but don't want to end up with a downtime nightmare.
>
> In my case Sympatico stopped working and upon changing my username/password
> I was immediately connected with istop.  Then the next day Bell got around
> to physically disconnecting me (dumb considering that they should have
> known I was going to just need "plugging" back in.  Anyway, I believe that
> I had 2 days of downtime before being reconnected.  I'm not sure if this is
> normal, I did provide istop with my Sympatico cancellation number.

I made sure my new service started before my old one ended by a week, and all 
I had to do was change my username and password and I was good to go.  No 
downtime at all really.

Jeremy Baker
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