I will be moving in a couple of months to a place that now is over 750 miles away and across 2+ states. I will not have access to my current Internet provider. How do I go about moving and keeping my account active while switching Internet providers?
Thanks for any help you have.
You don't lose anything if you don't log into the site for a couple of months. So you have nothing to worry about it.
When you have internet access just log in using your current credentials.
I think he might be implying that his current contact email address belongs to his current ISP.
In which case the easy answer is setup a free email account somewhere. ☺
I think he might be implying that his current contact email address belongs to his current ISP.
As long as he doesn't forget his user id/password, that wouldn't prevent him from logging in once he has internet access through a new ISP.
When I first joined SOL, I had a freebie myway.com addy. From promising the world, myway gradually declined until it pulled the plug altogether. I switched to a freebie hotmail.com addy. Making the switch in SOL is easy.
AJ
I guess we are lucky here in the Netherlands because it's more small scale. I have email addresses 25+ years old where the company went down, was taken over, went down again, taken over again and the complete user base was just passed to the next. The result is that I have email addresses where I go to the site of the latest owner who still supports the old addresses. Minimal storage, but they still work. I use one of those for catching and deleting spam (when buying on-line).
The problem isn't SOL (since your browser will likely remember your password anyway), the problem are all those websites you haven't visited for a long time. When you finally decide 'I need something from them, I guess I'd better log in', you likely won't be able to, since you often sign in using a combination of email & password, and if you haven't been active for a long time, they'll 'confirm' you are who you say you are by sending an email to the dead account—meaning your entire history of services, credits and purchases with the company are toast!
It's time to review those old account, and you can go ahead and purge those accounts you haven't used for a long time so once you get get a new internet provider, you can start fresh.
The other option, is to simply continue paying your current internet bill (after dropping any extras you're paying for, so you're only paying for basic minimal service) and then when you have a new provider, then switch over all of your accounts while you can still rely on the older address. Frankly, this is so common, I'm continually amazed that internet providers don't offer a 'carry over' services, where you pay a minimal fee to keep your email alive until you can transfer everything. But Corporations don't do what people need, they're only focused on ever growing profits. :(
your entire history of services, credits and purchases with the company are toast!
No, he can always enter his old email address as his username/password. The sites don't care if the address is no longer valid.