{"id":125,"date":"2007-01-12T09:10:45","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T23:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=125"},"modified":"2014-08-12T14:16:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T04:16:07","slug":"let-the-churn-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"Let the churn begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not satisfied with my existing 1.5Mbps ADSL from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westnet.com.au\">Westnet<\/a> I decided to churn to a 8Mbps with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exetel.com.au\">Exetel<\/a> upon advice from a friend. I plan to document the entire process to show everyone how easy, or difficult, it is.<\/p>\n<p>Both ISPs support &#8220;rapid&#8221; churn so ideally there shouldn&#8217;t be any problems. I signed up with Exetel yesterday and selected January 17 as the first available cut-over date. Exetel has a special offer of a $0 churn fee until Jan 15 so at least I escaped the $100-or-so slug usually associated with churning.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, my newly created Exetel username and password does not allow me to log onto the company&#8217;s customer portal, which is a good start. Let&#8217;s be positive and just say it gets provisioned on the churn date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not satisfied with my existing 1.5Mbps ADSL from Westnet I decided to churn to a 8Mbps with Exetel upon advice from a friend. I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,10,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadband","category-customer-service","category-daytoday","category-the-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}