They can't all be deep

[stakebait]

Finally I can get broadband! Verizon to offer DSL for $14.95 a month. Which is about eight bucks less than I'm paying Earthlink for dialup. It's a pity, because Earthlink has been that rare joy, a provider so glitchless as to be almost unnoticed. But faster and affordable wins.

Also, d'oh. Oh noes, says Mer, I can't try to go to the Serenity press screening tonight because I'm having dinner with Mom. Who is a huge Firefly fan and is bringing my DVDs to dinner to give back. Yeah, it took me 12 hours to figure out the solution to this conflict. Because I am smart like rock.

Comments

[norabombay.livejournal.com]

Yippie!

I went with Earthlink's DSL in 03, and have never been happier.

I am in a bad position where I can't switch isp, as I never want to lose my email addresses...

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

*nodsnods* all my email addies are web based for just that reason. The only people who ever send me mail at earthlink is earthlink. :)

[barking-iguana.livejournal.com]

You can get a pobox.com address now ($15/year) and start training people to sned to that address. It's a forwarding service, that will forward to multiple real addresses, if you want. Once everyone gets the idea, you can get a new address, repoint the pobox forawrding, and drop the old address.

Outgoing mil can be set up to be 'from' the pobox adddress (unless you're sending from a webmail host, like Yahoo), so when people reply, the replies go to pobox, and then get forwarded.

I've switched ISPs 3 times (including 2 cross-country moves) since I started using pobox, and it's all gone well.

Some organizations provide pobox-like services for free. I'g you're a member of a professional society, you might want to check that outbefore paying the $25.