Changing Internet Provider

Firetastic

Hi I'm moving house and I'm also changing Internet supplier from AOL to BT Broadband. I use Firefox and IE. Now I have a Belkin Router which I will no longer be using. Do I need to back up favourites, history or should I change supplier and be connected straight away?

TonyMMM

Changing the supplier will make no difference to stored favourites, or anything else on your PC (which you should be backing up regularly anyway).

You will get a new email address with your BT account and need to work out how/if you are going to change that over in whatever email client you use.

Firetastic

I use Yahoo mail so that will not be affected. Basically I'll be able to resume this session when the engineer has installed it? I've got 6 tabs open at the moment.

tsimehC

Firetastic wrote: »

I use Yahoo mail so that will not be affected. Basically I'll be able to resume this session when the engineer has installed it? I've got 6 tabs open at the moment.

Yes you can, connection will be lost but reloading will let you carry on. You may need to log back into your sites though.

Firetastic

Thank you everybody. I'm just trying to be prepared because aol will be cancelled on the 9th and bt will be getting installed on the 11th.

The reason I asked was three years ago we went through a few power cuts and then I lost the Internet. The computer man said the power cut had knocked the router off so had to reinstall aol. I remember him backing up my favourites.

tsimehC

I used to have AOL, never bothered with their software except to sign in (dial-up). You'll be fine if you're using third party software, just back up your favs yourself on Firefox and IE. I tend to keep them as HTML files on a thumb drive.

Ectophile

The BT Home Hub comes with a disk full of software. You do not need to install any of it.

If you use wired Ethernet, all you should need to do is plug in the cable. For wireless, you need to get your computer to log in to the new Home Hub with the hub's password.

Alternatively, you might just find that your existing router still works, and you don't have to do anything.

Firetastic

Our BT hub arrived today however going to be without the Internet for a week or so. Instead of the 11th it will now be the 20th of March.