Yep; they did that to us when we moved from the apt to this house 4 years ago. I called and wrote to Verizon repeatedly to make sure that the circuit change would involve nothing more than a CO patch change and was assured that I'd get no more than a few minutes downtime at most. When the time to move the circuit came, I was informed that since my old connection had been turned off, I'd have to wait in line to get "new" service. It took two solid days of telephone screaming to get them to pull their heads out and move my circuit. Believe me; if I had the option of making money with ISATools, I'd drop Verizon for a "real" service provider in a heartbeat. YaDamnSkippy I'm spoiled! =^> Jim Harrison MCP(NT4, W2K), A+, Network+, PCG http://isaserver.org/Jim_Harrison/ http://isatools.org Read the help / books / articles! -----Original Message----- From: Ray Dzek [mailto:Ray.Dzek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 9:32 AM To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] Subject: [isalist] RE: OT: I HATE VERIZON WITH A F#$%ING PASSION!!! http://www.ISAserver.org Whaaa whaaa whaaa - I just moved across town, and my ISP placed the service change orders with Verizon. Verizon never informed them until after the install date had slipped, and we called to find out why, that my new address was "closed". There are no open slots. But when we checked an address down the street, it showed open. Verizon can't and won't explain the discrepancy. So I am on either dial-up, or cell modem until this gets straightened out. So quit whining. At least you have service, albeit intermittent. So next time you decide to rant about a few missed spams at T1 speeds for $40 a month, remember the little people that are struggling to download 5MB of spam to get to the one email they need at 33Kbs or less. Ya big spoiled brat. :-) P.S. - Verizon sucks ________________________________ From: Jim Harrison [mailto:Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 9:05 PM To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] Subject: [isalist] OT: I HATE VERIZON WITH A F#$%ING PASSION!!! http://www.ISAserver.org If you had tried to either send me mail or get something from ISATools.org, you may have noticed some rather irritating non-responses today. This is because my DSL line is acting up (consumer-grade service; waddaya expect?). I've logged literally hours of downtime today and when I tried to get some help from Verizon, all I got was either "we're closed for the holidays" or "you're not using Verizon for your ISP, so we can't help you". This is customer service?!? If only it were as easy as the Qwest commercials made it sound, I'd shift telco carriers in a New York micro-second. My ISP (ZipCon, if you're in the Seattle area) put in some serious overtime for me today, but all to no avail. Needless to say, we're both PO'd in the extreme. If this is what deregulation gets us, it sucks big time. I'm almost considering moving to Business Cable (T-1 costs ~$800/mo between ISP and telco fees)... <GRRRR> ..at least I got the cables and adapters I needed to get some basic sound paths built for my studio... Alcohol; mass quantities of alcoho That's what's needed, here... 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