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Excite@Home & Comcast/AT&T Reach Agreement

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the moving-it-forward dept.

whee writes: "Through a $160 million deal, it looks like Comcast users will have Excite@Home supplied access for at least more three months (press release). Comcast anticipates moving existing customers over to a new Comcast-owned and managed network before the new contract expires." As well, it appears that the folks who were using AT&T's brand of Excite@Home are back online - as this press release said. T: CNET also has a story on the 3-way deal.

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  1. Just got back online by dfeldman · · Score: 5, Informative
    After the initial euphoria from being able to let my family use the phone again after a loooong weekend, I noticed a few differences in my new AT&T service:
    • My IP address had been switched and my hostname is considerably simpler (if as cryptic) as before.
    • Ping times are much better to most sites. I'm getting 15ms to yahoo right now.
    • Bandwidth appears to be capped around 768kbit down, 64kbit up. But I have not gotten less than 768kbit down on any of the several downloads I tried this evening (that included an apt-get update and 2.4.16 source tarball).
    • I can't see netbios broadcasts from my neighbors anymore, but their connections are verifiably up. Good.
    • DNS resolution is slow, so apt-get bind and set yourself up a caching nameserver.
    • DHCP seems flaky. My neighbors had 169.254 "windows autoconfigure" IP addresses until they entered their new IP manually.
    • Calling support is futile. It either disconnects or gives me a busy signal.
    • Overall I'm very happy this didn't take a lot longer. I was popping Prozac Friday night.

    df