@Home Can End Service

This is great!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

24.xxx.xxx.xxx = OWNED.

These cable operators used to make up 1/2 of @Home users (Canadiaian cable companies):

Shaw http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/011126/260364_1.html
Rogers http://biz.yahoo.com/cnw/011130/rogers_excite_ruling_1.html

About a year ago, Shaw decided to go it alone and set up their own Email and Newsgroup servers. Rogers decided to go it alone (although Shaw invited them to participate, no doubt for fees for use of Shaw's extensive network infrastructure).

Yay! I can almost feel my ping times dropping already! Internet congestion is sure to drop considerably if 4 million cable subscribers get the ax tonight.

Don't worry though, I post from my DSL line on behalf of all the disconected cable users.

BTW I really doubt your service will go down, and if it does it probably won't be down for long... cable companies want your money.

Hey btw, how many of you think that current @home subscriber rates will end up a little higher after this whole fiasco is over? $6 million a WEEK is quite a bit to make up for and I'm sure the other profitting parties involved aren't going to be willing to take a cut from their bottom lines.

JP

To @home: You ARE the weakest link! Goodbye!

anyone still posting in here?

My @home is still working....

then again: i am in Holland, whehe

BTW should anything be shut off, it won't be before midnight. I'll bet all my SAND!! that nothing at all will happen.

my @home is provided by ATT i think. so am i good or no?

I GIVE THANKS TO BIG BROTHER AOL/TIMEWARNER/NETSCAPE/ROADRUNNER.

I feel you pain guys, I was using Telocity when they started going downhill. Losing broadband is like losing indoor plumbing.

looks like the modem will be back in full force again, all the broadband is goin down the shitter

Some bits from CNet (http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-8031722.html):

"Despite threats from the cable companies, Carlson and numerous attorneys for bondholders and unsecured creditors said that shutting off service was highly unlikely--chiefly because such a move would be detrimental to all parties involved. Excite@Home and various cable partners, including AT&T Broadband, Cox Communications and Comcast, share infrastructure and content, and the companies split revenue that comes from paying subscribers."

"But attorneys for bondholders and unsecured creditors said the cable companies' protestations are nothing but idle threats--an attempt to hang onto lucrative contracts without having to renegotiate them at potentially less favorable rates."

"Even the cable companies say that the odds of a shutdown are slim. Cox Communications and Excite@Home executives were busy trying to negotiate contracts on Friday afternoon, in an attempt to "do everything possible to avoid an outage." "

"Sources close to the deal said few of those involved in the talks really want a shutdown of Excite@Home, and some bondholders are willing to accept bids even marginally more than $307 million. "



So clearly, there have to be new contracts, and that's all. Excite@home needs more revenue, and the cable companies have to share a little more of that huge pie.

My prediction? Nothing is going to happen in terms of service disruption. It would mean a very big blow to the cable networks.

booyaka

I'm glad I'm a Shaw customer ;)

Here's hoping I'm one of the 20% of customers AT&T can put on their existing network "quickly".

@home customers, read this article: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-8010578.html

It talks a bit about how the big cable companies are going to handle the shutdown and how long it might take them to restore service to its customers when @home shuts down.

humm
im already on rogers own network as of last week....

but my @home email still works and it was suposed to be changed over to a rogers account


hmmmmmmm

Strangely enough my email servers went down at about the same time. They came back up about 45 minutes ago though.

i still haven't gotten an e-mail from @home excite here in fullerton... dunno, i hope this isnt effecting me

One thing I don't understand. having a cable modem, I have to have over 40$ a month to have this service. and if there are 4 million other people like me out there each paying $40, how in the world are they loosing money? 40 times 4 mill is 160,000,000 and it takes over that much to run a cable modem service? Give me a break. I wish someone smart in the terms of buisness would explain how that works.

would you perfer the word "dumped" instead of dump?

Cool! Maybe now I won't have to wait in line at FilePlanet!

QUICK!

http://www.home.com/signup.html

Joy! The site AT&T Broadband's customer services gives for Q&A on whether we're getting nuked or not is hammered to the point of not loading.

http://money.cnn.com/2001/11/30/technology/excite/

Talks between Excite, its creditors and cable companies, including AT&T Broadband, Cox Communications Inc. and Comcast Corp., are under way in a bid for a new deal before the midnight deadline, attorneys at the bankruptcy court said.

A full shutdown of the service would strand 45 percent of the cable modem users in North America.

Scary. Or rather, sCary.

im glad all of canada has dump @home allready

well, my pings should get better.

i have some @home plates and a bowl

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-201-7013071-0.html

Sounds like your average FC sob-story.

Crud, I was just now telling someone I didn't think anything was gonna happen. Now I'm not so sure. STRIKE A DEAL, YOU AWP WHORING SLUGS!

You guys think shutting down excite@home is going to have any effect on pings/download speeds?

god bless optimumonline

*phew* thank god for @rogers

Oh man.... just read that cnet article. Comcast's stance is... "no comment"??? That's dropping the fucking ball in my book. Unless they offer me $15-20 a month for *LIFE* at this point, I'm gone. The worst part is that I receive VERY important work related e-mails at times dealing with remote clients. This is a type in all caps moment, but I'll stay cool...

FUCKING HELL!!!!!

"The remainder of AT&T Broadband's cable customers use the RoadRunner network. Although those customers won't experience an outage in Internet access, they could run into problems accessing content provided by Excite@Home."

Like anyone reall gives a fuck about the content...

Y'all should read this article from news.com also:http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-8031722.html

It has a different spin on the decision. Decidedly a bit more optimistic IMO.