For all you @home users:
It seems that Excite@home could be pulling the plug on cable modem subscribers…
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011127/wr/tech_excitehome_dc.html
I got a letter from AT&T a few days ago, but I only skimmed it. It said something to the effect that they’re trying to keep everyone’s internet service running, but there may be an outage. If @Home crumbles (probable) AT&T will most likely take over as ISP, but there could be a period of time that we’re without our service. Now I’ve got to go home and re-read that letter.
Mike
I’ve also heard (from a co-worker) that it may just be the e-mail & webhosting Excite@home services that will die. The actual internet service may still work.
So … I’m not 100% sure …
In my letter AT&T told me that they were building their own network just in case Excite@Home isn’t given a grace period by the government. Without this grace period AT&T doesn’t get enough time to purchase Excite@Home’s assets, which would make its value next to nothing. If they don’t get to purchase Excite@Home they will switch to their own network and our email addys will end with attbi.com instead of home.com. For example [email protected] would be my email address not [email protected]. I don’t really like it, but on the other hand I only care about speed.
Yeah…a bunch of people I know from the Toronto / Ontario area of canada have Rogers Cable as their provider.
Their e-mails have changed over in the past few weeks from [email protected] to [email protected].
I have Prodigy@home, which is somewhat affiliated with Excite, which helped re-launch Prodigy a few years back. Within the past weeks, I got a few Prodigy@home update newsletters about a name change and such, and my eMail has switched back to [email protected], as it was before I got on their cable service. Comcast, my cable company, has assured the NJ/PA users of its cable distribution service that their @home services will be continued by either their @home affiliator or Comcast or a 3rd party, and will continue to be delivered over the same cable lines. The @home services were all intertwined, and it appears that they will still be. But I have my good, trusty, Prodigy internet, and that’s all I care about.
Thank you for your inquiry. Cox is committed to providing the best
customer service possible.We are actively negotiating with all parties involved to come to an
agreement BEFORE Friday. We’re hopeful that we can reach an agreement
before the court ruling, which would mean that this ruling is a
non-issue.If we do not reach an agreement to continue uninterrupted service before
Friday, then we will look to the judge for a ruling on IF Excite@Home
HAS THE RIGHT to shut down service. If the judge rules that Excite@Home
has the right to shut down, we will obviously take all possible legal
actions, such as filing an appeal and asking for a stay, which is
essentially a hold on any action.In addition, we are developing service contingency plans that address
all possible scenarios, and we will keep you informed.We hope that we have been able to provide you with the information you
requested. If we have not, or if we can be of any additional service to
you, please do not hesitate to contact us again.
This was an e-mail I got requesting info from COX.
So it seems like this will be dragged on until someone has bought it out, which is most likely ATT
OH, the humanity! Say it isn’t so!
I don’t want to go back to a 56k Modem. I don’t think I can go back to 2-3 hour downloads. 
Wayne D.
Yeah, yeah, cry me a river. 
56K life isn’t too bad, though I admit that I really do want a cable modem now that they’re available in our area.
~Tom Fairchild~, who’s having a real hard time feelin’ sorry for you guys. 
Tom
When I HAD a 56k modem I downloaded a 2 meg file. It took me almost 2 hours.
With cable I downloaded a 20 meg file in 2 minutes.
Wayne D.
Well, if Comcast(the provider for my area) does temporarily lost service, I can always go back to using the T3 at work and carrying things home on a CD-R or Zip Disk…of course, for whatever reason, they only ran 10Base/T for the internet link within the office…
*Originally posted by Tom Fairchild *
**Yeah, yeah, cry me a river.56K life isn’t too bad, though I admit that I really do want a cable modem now that they’re available in our area.
~Tom Fairchild~, who’s having a real hard time feelin’ sorry for you guys.
**
When you’re only way of getting on the internet is high speed, you get used to it. Going back would be a hard thing. Although, my cable at home is so slow sometimes, I swear 56k could be faster 
j/k
LoL, okay Nate, that just crossed the line. You’re complaining because your network can only get you 10megs a second out of your T3 line?
~Tom Fairchild~, who’s weeping heavily for Nate’s loss. j/k
(Sorry Nate! Just gotta pick on ya, even though I’m using a T1 here at school)
Excite at home isnt in our area, but we have Insight@home, the cable TV provider. A few months ago the cable provider had some financial problems, and closely avoided getting their plug pulled…now its 40 dollars a month…thats the only reason why i am still using 56k…
I love my 56k!!!
It runs fast and it connects very fast…
Plus i was wondering what service Wayne Doenges had where it took him 2 hours to download a 2mb file… (i think i’ve downloaded a 20mb file in that time) plus it also depends on the website that you are downloading the file from, some places limit you to how fast you can download it…
my internet service went out last night at 9pm est. did anyone elses go out that uses @HOME. as of this morning, it still didn’t work. i’ll have to try it again when i get out at 10:30. halfdays RULE!!!
Someone at work is monitoing mine & my friends cable (same neighborhood) from his DSL line, and my ping averages have risen from 100ms to 600ms in the past two days… my friends cable has stayed at 100ms. I wonder what happened at my house.
I was upset they were 100ms … and now they’re 600ms … super :rolleyes: :mad:
I was doing the @Home network diagnoses tool, and the average ping time was 200 ms, when usually it is 10-20 ms. I did the speed test on the MSN website and it stated that I had a connection about the same as a 28.8 modem. But anyway it appears that is back up to speed now.
my @HOME works now and seems to be going a LOT faster. i better d/l a bunch of stuff before we really loose service.
Well, for the moment, @Home appears to still be running. The real key, however, will be at 3 AM EST tomorrow. That is when @Home’s service agreements with the cable companies end, and they can, at that point, terminate service whenever they feel like it. Hopefully this is all just a bunch of maneuvering to try to get the most out of a buy-out deal, but only time will tell…