[sclug] ADSL migration

[Hamlesh Motah]

Good luck with that, most ISPs will say "its against our policy", and
give you the run around for weeks.

I have had bad experiences on multiple occasions with regard to this
subject with;

Bulldog
Pipex
Zen
Virgin

When trying to migrate clients from their connections.

Hamlesh Motah.


: -----Original Message-----
: From: sclug-bounces at sclug.org.uk 
: [mailto:sclug-bounces at sclug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Simon Huggins
: Sent: 18 April 2005 14:28
: To: sclug at sclug.org.uk
: Subject: Re: [sclug] ADSL migration
: 
: 
: On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 12:24:15PM +0100, Chris Aitken wrote:
: > Anyone know why some ISPs quote "migration of engineer-installed 
: > customers is not supported".
: 
: > How does migration become impossible purely because someone else 
: > plugged in the ADSL modem?
: 
: If this latter is the case then it wasn't really 
: "engineer-installed". What the ISP means is that a BT 
: installed ADSL line where a BT engineer actually physically 
: installed it will have special magic on the account which 
: means you can't do the normal:
: 	- get MAC from old ISP
: 	- give MAC to new ISP
: 	- have a seamless migration 5-10 days later
: 
: They're quite rare though now really.  Ask your old ISP for a 
: MAC anyway and see what happens?
: 
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