We live so far from civilization that AOL is not available with a local phone number. But we switched from a local ISP to Prodigy about a year ago and have been delighted with their service. Prodigy makes it very difficult for you to phone them but everything can be easily done on line (using AOL). We have switched credit cards and changed from monthly to yearly on line without any problems.

The way to switch ISPs smoothly is to have both of them for one month. This gives you plenty of time to take care of houskeeping chores such as transferring bookmarks and notifying friends of your new e-mail address. If, after you notify everyone you can think of, you still get mail at the old address, you can deal (or not) with those people one at a time.

Bev and Jerry