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@Home Network Approaching Shutdown
David Harris writes: "A bankruptcy court ruled today that the @Home network will be shutdown at midnight, unless the company reaches new deals with its cable partners and creditors. The decision is a victory for bondholders, owed $750 million by Excite@Home, whose motion asked the court to shutdown the network on grounds that AT&T's $307 million offer to acquire @Home's broadband network is not adequate and fair value for the network could only be found if a shutdown was forced." Read about it on excite.com, while you can. CNet has a good analysis of where things stand. 45% of the cable modem users in North America! Ouch.
And probably last post since I'm an @home subscriber. My e-mail is already toast!
When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.
starts looking in the back side of computer boxes to figure our which one has the modem installed
-- Knowing too much can get you killed, but knowing who knows too much can make you rich.
I'm a bit confused... if you signed up through AT&T for @Home access, does that mean you're losing your service with excite's expiration? My parents have AT&T@Home service, and I'm worried that this'll stop the flow of virally infected email that lets me know my Dad's still alive.
Who will be most upset by the @home outage?
Oh no! SETI@home is shutting down service too?!?!?!?
:-)
After the shutdown of the @home cable service, the internet speeds increased 6 times faster!
If all this should have a reason, we would be the last to know.
Immediate eradication of code red and nimda?
Really? What would the downside be?
That is all.
Time for a Congressional bailout.
P.S. It's for the children...
That is all.
It's a part of @Home newtork, right?
1 bit per minute.. might as well call up a friend and have him read off bytes in hex..
"Hi, is Fred there?"
"Hey Nick, ready?"
"Sure."
"AF 0A 3F 12 92 45"
"Hold on Fred, I have some incoming packets."
"Oh okay."
"D0 31 20 00 56"
"Alright.." *taps on his keyboard* "51 39 2C..."
Yeah, one's possessions (or the lack thereof) are the best guage of one's overall worth as an individual.
So, do you count among the stuff you *do* own the step ladder you use for climbing up on your high horse with?
I've been a loyal @Home customer for several years, and it's inconceivable that they wou
I got news for those fuckers. A 300 baud modem is a faster speed than ZERO....
LOL. This is the best description I've ever seen of the fucking bullshit hoops I've had to jump through for AT&T, both under previous RoadRunner network management and under the new, substantially worse @home folks. At least before we got moved to @home I knew I could call after midnight and usually get somebody half-way competent who could tell me if there was a network problem or not rather than force me to pretend I was rebooting a non-existant Windows 98 box. :)
I can just see a head IRC moderator lowering his head and saying... "I just had a terrible feeling.. as if millions of subscribers screamed in terror and were soon silenced"....