Alright, my contract with a large telecom company here in the U.S. that has been providing me with DSL is about to end. I have already gotten cable modem installed by a large cable company. I haven’t even started using it yet because it means I’ll have to make a few minor changes in the settings for my smtp server. But, I need to do that tonight or else I will be paying way too much for DSL and won’t even be using the cable modem.
So why exactly did I switch? One of the main reasons is because large corporations in the U.S. now reward you for customer disloyalty. In otherwords, if I switched my cell phone service, high speed internet service, and cable/satellite service every single time my contract expires, I get a much better deal on my new service. But if I don’t cancel, they raise my rates after my contract ends and don’t give me the same deals they offer to new customers. Is there any difference in the quality of service? Sometimes there is, but usually the differences are not very noticable.
But I digress. This was just supposed to indicate that I was switching ISPs. Hopefully that won’t cause any extra outages.