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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. Do you guys READ anything before posting updates? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    AT+T was NOT part of this deal. AT+T has not made a deal with @Home. Comcast has NOT bought AT+Ts cable buisness (yet). AT+T IS moving customers to their own network infrastructure. AT+T had moved 10% shortly after the plug got pulled. AT+T has NOW moved 40%. They plan to move the rest by Friday. Sheesh.

    READING IS FUNDAMENTAL. Try it sometime.

  2. Oh REALLLY? by sting3r · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm in the same boat as you - formerly ATT@home, now attbi.com. My service did not work when I plugged in the broadband router I had been using for the past six months, but it worked just fine when I removed the router. I figured that maybe AT&T was filtering known router MAC addresses on their new network (as some ISPs have been known to do), but then I changed the MAC address on the router and it still didn't work. Then I tried it on my buddy's DSL connection and it worked perfectly.

    Something suspicious is definitely going on here. I think AT&T found a new way of blocking routers on their new network. Has anyone else figured out how they are doing this and how to fix it?

    -sting3r