In two days time we move house. I will be without internet and my existing cable service will be cut off. While this blog will stay up (it’s hosted on blogspot) everything else will go down. This includes things like images, CSS and JavaScript used on this blog so things might not work so well for a little while.
With any luck, I’ll resume internet service with the same ISP and everything will just start working again (I was told there was a 90 day window for email addresses but I’m not sure about web storage). In any case, I hope to have everything back up in a week or two.
Update 28 Jan 2009
I’ve been with Optus cable for about 4 years now but were they at all helpful in getting me re-connected at my new house? No. Not at all. I’ve felt this before, that they just don’t care about their customers.
Despite telling me they’d keep my account in suspension for 90 days (so I could re-activate it at my new house) they killed my web storage so everything other than this blog is gone.
We’ll be getting Telstra cable sometime next week.
That really stinks :(
I don’t suppose you can get Internode Naked ADSL2? It might be better value since you’ll be there only a year.
I haven’t heard of Internode. I did ring iiNet (they were able to set me up with Naked DSL) but they said it would take 10 to 20 days to get setup.
Someone from Telstra originally said I’d be right to go straight away if only I had one of their CDs. I found a copy online but it didn’t work. When I rang back the person said Telstra doesn’t support BYO modems. Still, a week is less than 20 days and there’s no questions about the quality of the wiring or exchange.
The cost of Cable vs DSL was much closer than I had anticipated anyway. Perhaps other DSL providers are cheaper but then they don’t give you Naked DSL so you have to pay for a phone line too.