[Gllug] OT Changing ADSL supplier

[Jason Clifford]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, will wrote:

> > Not sure what you need to do to switch, I'm guessing the new provider gets
> > BT to throw a few switches at your local exchange, you reconfigure your
> > modem / router with the new account settings and then you're laughing
> 
> That's a joke right?  ;-)  BT's switch throwing at the local exchange 
> consisted of 2 weeks downtime.  I had to cancel one account, wait for it 
> to get really really cancelled then take out an account with my new 
> provider.  Things might have changed since then though.

They have. Migration is not the same as a cease and reprovide which is 
what you probably experienced.

With a migration downtime is usually limited to about an hour.

Jason Clifford
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