ISP down

[icarus]

Hi guys. My ISP (Earthlink) is down and has only been working sporadically over the weekend. Now I've had no internet access since Sunday am.

Any advice on a new ISP?

I've been annoyed with Earthlink ever since they outsourced their customer service to India. Other than my personal feelings about the loss of American jobs and corporate greed, the Indian customer service reps just aren't as good. I miss the days when I'd contact Earthlink and the guy on the other line actually cared and was knowledgeable, excitedly informing me that the problem I have is the nasty new McEvil virus -- then send me a link on just how I can fix it.

Now, I call Earthlink, and some confused fellow with a thick accent answers the phone. He flips through screens that are supposed to tell him what to do and comes up empty. He attempts some inept small talk that he obviously has been told to parrot. When he can't help me because he's either a) not that educated in technology or b) doesn't give a damn, he hands me a bottled, "I am so sorry for the inconvenience." Then sits silently on the phone waiting for me to accept my fate. When I try to ask him to get off his duff and perhaps try some original thought, creativity maybe? -- I get the same "I am so sorry for the inconvenience." And silence.

What idiot decided India was a great place for call centers? I lived there. They have some of the worst service in the world.

Anyway, back the subject at hand: currently I'm paying $21.95/mo. for unlimited dial-up.

I moved my website from the free Earthlink account to Slashcity a year ago. I've left my old website up so some people's story links will die (specifically dkwilliams's links at Inkstained Fingers and switchknife's links), but most people have already made the transition.

The move will take down the original Percy Fic-A-Thon site. But the Percyfest stories have all been moved to Percyness: The Percy Weasley Archive.

I've also migrated my email from Earthlink to Yahoo and Gmail over the last year-to-two years. So I'm packed up and ready to move.

Any recommendations?

Comments

[wickedelf.livejournal.com]

I moved my website from the free Earthlink account to Slashcity a year ago.

Ooh, I'm glad you mentioned that! I had just finished uploading stories into efiction and was about to go looking for new things to add, and remembered that you had mentioned there was more of Beg Me For It now. :P

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, in fact I've all the parts linked together in order (including the little drabbles I did throughout the series) starting at the bottom of Beg Me For It (http://www.icarus.slashcity.net/stories/begmeforit.html).

If you don't want the million and a half drabbles, then all the main parts of the series are here:

Beg Me For It (http://www.icarus.slashcity.net/stories/begmeforit.html)

Sex, Drugs and Death Eater Rock (http://www.icarus.slashcity.net/stories/sexdrugsdeatheaterrock.html)

Hey You (http://www.icarus.slashcity.net/stories/heyyou.html)

SNAFU (http://www.icarus.slashcity.net/stories/snafu.html)

Stand In The Ruins (http://www.icarus.slashcity.net/stories/standintheruins)

Celebrate Life (http://www.icarus.slashcity.net/stories/celebratelife.html)

Scarred (http://www.icarus.slashcity.net/stories/scarred.html)

Hope that's helpful.

Icarus

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Whoops. I left the .html off the address for Stand In The Ruins (http://www.icarus.slashcity.net/stories/standintheruins.html)

Icarus

[wickedelf.livejournal.com]

great! I grabbed them all! Will hopefully have time to read them tomorrow.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Oh, right on!

Icarus