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@Home Troubles
by Steve Gibson, Aug 20, 2001 9:09am PDTYou guys remember seeing all those stories about DSL companies and their troubles? Then you probably remember all those guys on cablemodems laughing and taunting... well then this just might interest you. (Thanks Roofus) Excite @Home has announced that they "may not be able to continue operations" due to market conditions and the possibility of Nasdaq delisting them.
The company said in the amendment that it may not continue as a "going concern," which in financial lingo means that the cable Internet access company is running out of cash. The company also warned it could get booted off the Nasdaq, a move that would accelerate Excite@Home's financial woes. Companies can be delisted if they trade under $1 for 30 consecutive days.update: I'm not 100% certain but everything I can find points to Excite@Home looks to be the parent company for all @Home services. If this is indeed the case it will most likely impact all @Home customers in some form. Such as Rogers@Home and AT&T@Home etc.
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im tried of my firewall going nuts cause of em ;-)
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Excite@Home is the parent company of @Home. All of the MSO's (Rogers, Shaw, Cox, Cogeco) purchase content, DHCP, mail, news services through them except for Cogeco (as far as I know). I know Rogers still does. This is why you guys use computer names beginning with cr or cs. That validates you on the DHCP box. If you want to see if they use @Home's DHCP, take that number out. If you can lease an IP then they don't and vice versa they do.
However Cogeco still uses their mail and news servers. The mail.busy1.on.home.com and what have you in place of busy1
I would think with over 1 million customers using @home.com addys that you will not see that die. I can see AT&T taking that portion of the network over and collecting coin from the MSO's/ISP's for that service. The content page will die. The news servers I can see going to the local ISP's as there isn't that huge of a demand (realistically Mom and Pop don't troll newsgroups) for the service.
Anyways it will be interesting to say the least.
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The western Canada edition of Shack comment
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Anyone know for certain?
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heard that they're pretty good.
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this is a good thing if you ask me.
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It's not a matter of writing solid netcode that makes online play on a modem fun. It's a matter of having actual GAMEPLAY that facilitates lag and then throwing in the "joy" of client side prediction. Cable was fun while it lasted...
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AOL WILL BUY @HOME
Microsoft, and AOL WILL WAGE WAR WITHTHE PRICE FOR @HOME
when there auctioning parts of the company of
heh
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Go to Qwest's website and look over their DSL offerings, and you'll see 3 very, VERY nasty letters...
MSN
I haven't read up on the details yet, but it looks like if you want DSL from Qwest, your ISP is MSN whether you like it or not. This worries me as I hook my broadband into my linux server, which shares it for the rest of this hardware, but MSN might make that difficult->impossible for me...
MoNsTeR
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ok...hahahhahahhaa
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Any multiplayer based game better have it's networking code up to dial-up standards, or it's just gonna suck @SS.
HAHAAHAHAHA
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1) I move into new house.
2) I lookup Broadband options
3) I am 12000 ft away from the CO
4) I order Qwest DSL
5) Order Denied. Reason: "Your line is broken"
6) I order COVAD DSL
7) Order Denied. Reason: "Qwest says your line is broken"
8) I order ATT@Home
9) Service Installed.
10) Service sucks. 500bytes/sec downloads with disconnections every 30 min
11) Service repaired 6 days later: Bad NIC card
12) 450+K/sec download speeds!
13) CELEBRATION!! 30ms pings! A WINNER IS ME!
14) Read Shack's news on @Home
15) Shoot self.
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that is all
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I hate rogers@home ... but i dont want to switch to dsl
arhghhh
seriously, if i lost my fucking cable at home i'd have to get a T1 installed. no shit.
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Dial-up-speed news-groups suck
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i hope nothing bad happens :/
as long as my local isp doesn't stop carrying cable internet (they were offering it before @home), I won't worry
Even throught I hate them, ATT is the only choice for fast connection I have. If not, I have to go back to some form of modem.