Gosh, ScumBiker, my condolences to you! We're in the St. Louis, MO, area and Charter has committed to making this one of their crown jewels for cable services. My friend lost the advantages of a static IP address when Charter took over (which, of course, he wasn't paying for and should never have had in the first place) but he's been able to console himself with 900k rates and precious few dropped connections. I admit that I've never tried to optimize our DSL connection but the best we can normally get is around 300k (at just over a mile from SWBell's switching station). They also charge about $5/month less than SWBell ($45 vs. $50) so it's been very tempting to switch over to them.
I only knew 2 people that had @Home "service" but they both had problems with @Home. Neither of them were running servers or anything else. They just wanted Internet connections and e-mail.
@Home could never get the connection for my friend's computer set up correctly. They couldn't get a dynamic IP address to work for him so they had to give him a static one. When Charter took over after @Home went belly-up, they had my friend's connection fixed in short order (with no changes on his PC) AND he's had much better bandwidth since then.
My cousin just knows how to surf the Web and read e-mail but she had problems, too. Her service was always unstable, at least until another company took it over. Her service has been rock solid since then.
I'm sure that there WERE users who were abusing the service but, more often than not, the service (or lack of it) was abusing the users...
I agree with you totally (and I'm not even a lawyer!). It doesn't seem to me, though, that the DoJ is using that leverage in their settlement. After the findings of fact were upheld I had hope that Microsoft would be forced to accept a settlement with some teeth to it. Unfortunately with what the DoJ has proposed, now it looks like all we can do is try to gum MS to death...
I hope that the Judge will throw out the proposed settlement but I'm sure not going to bet on it. She seems pretty determined to have a settlement worked out outside of the court. This may not be quite what she wanted (or expected) but I don't know that it will be bad enough for her to throw it out...
Glen Guenther
I'm not from Florida but I AM from Missouri. I voted for Ashcroft every time he ran and I'd probably do it again if he ran for an office here. We certainly haven't had any better alternatives.
Still, that doesn't mean that I agree with everything he's done and the DoJ's capitulation to Microsoft (so far) bothers me the most.
I STRONGLY agree with you that Clinton/Reno didn't pursue the Microsoft case because they had the best interests of the country in mind. Our ex-President certainly showed that upholding the law wasn't one of HIS priorities...
Glen Guenther
Hey! Don't pick on her just because she talks to dead people! Here in Missouri we elect dead people to Congress. It keeps them from cluttering up our cemeteries, dontcha know...
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Gosh, ScumBiker, my condolences to you! We're in the St. Louis, MO, area and Charter has committed to making this one of their crown jewels for cable services. My friend lost the advantages of a static IP address when Charter took over (which, of course, he wasn't paying for and should never have had in the first place) but he's been able to console himself with 900k rates and precious few dropped connections. I admit that I've never tried to optimize our DSL connection but the best we can normally get is around 300k (at just over a mile from SWBell's switching station). They also charge about $5/month less than SWBell ($45 vs. $50) so it's been very tempting to switch over to them.
I only knew 2 people that had @Home "service" but they both had problems with @Home. Neither of them were running servers or anything else. They just wanted Internet connections and e-mail.
@Home could never get the connection for my friend's computer set up correctly. They couldn't get a dynamic IP address to work for him so they had to give him a static one. When Charter took over after @Home went belly-up, they had my friend's connection fixed in short order (with no changes on his PC) AND he's had much better bandwidth since then.
My cousin just knows how to surf the Web and read e-mail but she had problems, too. Her service was always unstable, at least until another company took it over. Her service has been rock solid since then.
I'm sure that there WERE users who were abusing the service but, more often than not, the service (or lack of it) was abusing the users...
I agree with you totally (and I'm not even a lawyer!). It doesn't seem to me, though, that the DoJ is using that leverage in their settlement. After the findings of fact were upheld I had hope that Microsoft would be forced to accept a settlement with some teeth to it. Unfortunately with what the DoJ has proposed, now it looks like all we can do is try to gum MS to death... I hope that the Judge will throw out the proposed settlement but I'm sure not going to bet on it. She seems pretty determined to have a settlement worked out outside of the court. This may not be quite what she wanted (or expected) but I don't know that it will be bad enough for her to throw it out... Glen Guenther
I'm not from Florida but I AM from Missouri. I voted for Ashcroft every time he ran and I'd probably do it again if he ran for an office here. We certainly haven't had any better alternatives. Still, that doesn't mean that I agree with everything he's done and the DoJ's capitulation to Microsoft (so far) bothers me the most. I STRONGLY agree with you that Clinton/Reno didn't pursue the Microsoft case because they had the best interests of the country in mind. Our ex-President certainly showed that upholding the law wasn't one of HIS priorities... Glen Guenther
Hey! Don't pick on her just because she talks to dead people! Here in Missouri we elect dead people to Congress. It keeps them from cluttering up our cemeteries, dontcha know...