Excite@Home & Comcast/AT&T Reach Agreement

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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Not happy, not happy at all...

[A_Non_Moose]

Yesterday I had several friends call me and ask how my service was doing.

Well, it sucks. Currently my modem has been set to a 128Kbit max upload/download. for those doing the math that is ~= a 56K modem's speed.

Seriously, I understand the don't want to get flooded, but this is ridiculous. I started a download last night that would take about 2 hours, normally. 14+ hours later it was still not done and had crapped out, to boot.

Apparently charter has a 30, 40 and 50 dollar service. What the difference is, god only knows, but I'm on the phone now trying to find out.

I realize I'm probably rambeling on, but, to see Comcast and AT&T getting 1.5M down...damn, I want to cry.

This whole affair has left me absolutely livid.
I absolutely hate the current litigous society we live in, but, "Class action/Consumer Fraud" and other types of law suits leapt up in my mind.

I'm seriously considering some form of action to light a fire under a few asses here locally to do something.

One word summation of all this: "Arrrruuuuggghhh!!!"