The joys of ISPs

[madbaker]

Our ISP has been bought. Just like the last time, they have killed our access to e-mail.
I called and complained; the supervisor said he fixed the problem, but that it would take 24 hours or so. Since we're going out of town for a few days, I may not get any e-mails until Thursday.

Comments

[albionwood.livejournal.com]

24 hours to get an e-mail addy restored??? That's terrible. Even our little hometown ISP did better than that. (Most of the time.) Sounds like they just don't care.

[aastg.livejournal.com]

Well, doesn't that just suck inside out...and what "fix" takes 24 hours? Did they have to re-run a batch cycle?!


...and speaking of cool icons - where did you find this?

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

It's from a really old Mother Goose & Grimm cartoon that I can't find at the moment. The clown is driving a pickup with a mounted pie rack, and a bumper sticker reading "They can take my pie when they pry my cold, dead hands from around it."

I laughed for five minutes straight when I saw it.

[goldenstag.livejournal.com]

That sucks. Sometimes it pays to go with a bigger-name ISP so you don't have these issues. I've been with Earthlink for years, and never had a problem.

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

I switched from Earthlink some years back when they did this very thing.

[goldenstag.livejournal.com]

Weird. I've never had a problem with that. I have had some odd things happen with them (moving over to their authentication server was strange because they weren't using the most recent versions of Eudora ...), but ...