Many people today are replacing their old dial up accounts and are moving over to broadband. In doing so they may be changing ISP (Internet Service Provider).

Before changing your ISP just because someone is offering a special deal you need to be aware of the problems associated with the change.

Email Addresses

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This is by far the most important consideration. Most people use email addresses provided by their ISP and changing ISP usually means that they loose their email addresses.

If you are one of those who regularly switch providers then you should consider separating your email from your ISP. This you can do by using many of the email only providers or by getting yourself  a permanent lifetime email address
with your own domain name.

Otherwise you should acquaint yourself with the common procedures to follow in order to change email addresses. Once
you have your broadband set up then you need to disable or delete you old dial up connection.

Disable your old Dial Up

Once you are on broadband you also need to disable dial up otherwise when you go to send the email client will try to establish an Internet connection before sending and completely ignore the fact that it is already connected to the Internet.

To do this open Internet explorer select Tools>internet options and make sure the never dial a connection radio box is enabled.

If you are sure that you will no longer use the dial up connection you should delete it. I would always wait until I was happy that the broadband was working ok before doing do.

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