@Home Update

Shaw@Home only uses the brand name '@Home' anymore, and the excite@home content (the page if you go to 'www').

There is a class action lawsuit against Rogers on behalf of all the customers. The reason for this is (it is often misunderstood) that customers are Rogers are continuously billed even when there is an outage, and when they were having major problems they were having outages spanning multiple weeks for some customers. Customers would call in and complain but they would not get refunded. With other ISPs, or at least Shaw@Home, if you experience an outage and it's the ISPs fault, you can call tech support and ask to be refunded for that period. This generally only applies to basic connectivity (not email) and keep in mind before you call, being offline for an entire day is worth a whopping $1.50 or so.

My ISP here (Shaw Cable, Calgary) is divorcing itself from @Home...they are setting up their own mail and news servers, and started working on this about a year ago. I guess they could see the end coming. They also have never used @Home's shitty network, they've always directly peered with UUNet and the likes. I guess they've done it because they can -- their customers make up like 20% of @Home. Same goes for Rogers (in Canada) though, and they've stuck with @Home.

So that's why those bastards raised my monthly charges 10 bucks a few months ago...

Just called cox@home to see how they are handling this. THey said that they will continue to provide high speed internet access, that they expect some disruption in service at some point as they switch from @home to whatever, but will try to minimize the disruption. No idea what/when is going to happen yet.

Well, at least they are thinking about the problem...

My Comcast@Home service has been very reilable, the only time it ever goes out is when the cable goes out, which isnt often

I'LL NEVER TURN TO DSL!

Anyone remember that screwy internet over the power wires technology where the Power Co's would work with the ISPs? Wonder how that has failed fanned out?

Last week I got a letter from comcast@home stating that "beginning Sept. 1, comcast@home will begin transitioning to Comcast High-speed internet service." My email will change from xxx@home.com to xxx@icomcast.com.

anyone else get this letter?
I hope things dont get fukked up. My access is very good and reliable. I'm hoping maybe there wont be that 128kb upload cap anymore.

Meh, Shaw@Home still rocks

my @home is horrible. I have to wait till after 1am to get better-than-modem performance in game. The PL is just unbearable. Its just gotten worse in the past month. But Im too lazy to call and bitch cause I'll be at college in a few days.

I pay $30 a month for at best 500K+ downloads, or for a comparable speed DSL I could pay $100... Sure theres DSL out there for $30, but your speeds wont get past 15K/sec

Ironically enough, I just got my @home today. 3.7mbit down, 1.0 up. But the cap hasn't been installed yet. :P

Don't worry about it everyone... I already have att broadband, so it isn't a big deal. My cable connection is always quick and it isn't worldnet either..

And to say I was complaining about their lack of spam filters... The pain of getting 20+ spams a day is nothing compared to the pain of loosing my cable altogether... /me hugs cable modem

Wasn't AT&T going to sell their cablemodem business, meaning @home too?

my @home is great.. maybe it's because i live in the boonies of connecticut? heh.. suckers.. i'll never use dsl, too god damn expensive and way more problems.. only time my service goes out is at 3am for an upgrade on the lines

and i could care less who runs @home as long i have a cable modem, i will never switch back to dial up again!!!!!!1

So basically, it's not going to be @home service... it's going to AT&T High Speed WorldNet service...

ugh. My cable modem is about to take a turn for the worse. I can feel it.

PS. Anon posting gone again?

As long as those three little lights on my cable modem is on, I'll be happy. Thank you AT&T, I don't mind personally if you take over the world.

Ya know what sucks?

When one asshole in your dorm wing causes enough net congestion to overload the hub you are on....and cause a loss of internet service for most of the week.

so here's a big FUCK YOU to the guys in 622

and NO, I'm not going to get over it.

The stupid thing is that AT&T WorldNet is probably one of the best Big Giant ISPs. Good service, great support for a MegaISP.

Meanwhile, on the other hand, @Home... *chuckles*

@Home, AT&T, who cares who the check is made out to. As long as I get the service, I could care less.

say it ain't so.

The bitch is back