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Originally Posted by Hockeyguy15
I've had nothing but good experiences when I've called and looked for a deal.
Every time I am honest and say I don't want the hassle of moving but that without some sort of promo pricing it doesn't make sense for me to stay. I've never had to threaten or be rude, generally the people I get understand and accomodate me. Maybe I leave more on the table by not pushing the issue more but oh well.
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That's the thing. I actually like Shaw. Some people have their reasons for disliking a particular company, and that's fair, but they've always been pretty good to me. I'm also pretty friendly, and sometimes I wonder if I'd get more in return if my wheel squeaked a little more, but I'm happy with the outcome today. It was all pretty satisfying.
EXCEPT for the fact that my IP address changed. I know that I don't get a static, but you can usually keep it for a few years if you just leave it be. But all of my services went down and they had to do some resetting in the background, so I lost my good old IP that I use to VPN back to my house. And I think that my modem went back into non-bridged mode.
Even so, I know that they'll get me sorted out in a few minutes here, and re-configuring my VPN configs a wee bit is very much a minor issue to save $600/year.
Edit: After they re-bridged me, my IP address changed again - but back to my original one! Praise be! My DHCP lease must have remained intact, so that saves me tinkering with my VPN configs on all of my devices.