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hi,now that we able to get sky broadband in accy, just wondered how easy or should i say how difficult would it be to cancel aol and go on to sky broadband, would like to hear of other peoples experiences of changing over because i,ve heard its really difficult to cancel aol. marg
 
marg. said:
hi,now that we able to get sky broadband in accy, just wondered how easy or should i say how difficult would it be to cancel aol and go on to sky broadband, would like to hear of other peoples experiences of changing over because i,ve heard its really difficult to cancel aol. marg
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As long as you have finished your contract there should be no problem.

When I uninstalled AOL from my PC a while ago it really messed my registary up so a good cregistary leaner is recommended for after.
 
Cancelling should be fairly straightforward although they may well pester you with questions about why you want to leave and maybe even make you tempting offers to try to keep you.

Like Mr. D says, uninstalling it is the challenge.
 
yep, AOL install software actually removes stuff that every other ISP uses so its hard to get online with anyone else.

You may need to reinstall a few windows components but its perfectly doable

As Willow says , they will desperately try to keep you though :)
 
Has anyone on here actually moved to Sky Broadband. Looks too good to be true pricewise, would rather know before I switch.
 
Ordered it for next door. (Old dears)

Not migrating from anyone else but it was slick enough. Got their router just waiting for BT to do their stuff
 
the just want Base as they don't do a lot of Internet stuff

DAve, its already setup, just waiting for their username/password letter and teh ADSL sync light to come on
 
hi, thanks for your advise,think i,ll bite the bullet and go ahead with getting sky broadband,will go for the max option, cheers once again. marg.
 
If you are already on a broadband package with AOL you may need a migration number. its a code that allows BT to swap you from one supplier to another. You need to get this from AOL and give it to SKY
 
entwisi said:
Dave, its already setup, just waiting for their username/password letter and teh ADSL sync light to come on
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Ian, what is the box they send you? Their T&C's say you have to use it and allow them to update the software in it.
 
entwisi said:
Its a standard Netgear router with a big SKY logo on the top.
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That sound good then. They say it is yours as soon as you get it but the software in it is theirs and that they will change it if they feel like it. I think they maybe getting mixed up with their Sky TV Digiboxes
 
yep, AFAIK there is no way to do a remote firmware upgrade with them. (Unlike Oranges 'Livebox')
 
entwisi said:
(Unlike Oranges 'Livebox')
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Yuk, do you have one of those? I don't like the idea of an ISP playing with your perfectly working box. Then again Vonage can mess with my D-Link VOIP box and I cant get into it at all. It comes preconfigured. You just plug it into your router and plug a phone into it and hey presto the phone works.
 
Just because it came with my broadband package doesn't mean I'm using it. In fact currently its at "Harwood Red Towers"

I have a nice little Linksysy WRT54 which of course uses Linux for its firmware and can even be flashed to a completely open source alternative firmware enabling enterprise standard routing and extras like Samba clients and the like.
 
entwisi said:
I have a nice little Linksysy WRT54 which of course uses Linux for its firmware and can even be flashed to a completely open source alternative firmware enabling enterprise standard routing and extras like Samba clients and the like.
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to 99.99% of accyweb you just said "blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah"

samba.. not heard that in yrs...but then i kinda moved away from that side of things.... probably best if i stuck wth it though.. but then again..each to his own :)
 
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