@Home customers left in limbo (blackout not likely)

CNet ^ | 11/30/01 | Rachel Konrad

[spycatcher]

It's not going to go away at midnight automatically

[IronJack]

I am part of this deal. My ISP is @Home. I'm not sure I can survive without a high-speed connection. It would be like going back to a party line and a cob stove.

[mombonn]

"While the cessation of customers' Internet access is regrettable, it does not jeopardize public health or safety."

No, but it would jeopardize my MENTAL health! A weekend without FR is like a weekend without sun! Actually, I can survive a weekend without sun!

Everyone disses AOL, but I have not had such troubles at work. I switched to @home for my home computer, wish I was back to dial-up at this point.

[Cagey]

My @home connection has been acting a bit odd tonight with periodic disconnects. Anyone else?

[joyce11111]

Me, too. I am getting @Home on the 11th of December. My phone lines aren't too good in the winter, sometimes I am logging on at 4,000 bps.

[spycatcher]

Some cable companies may be testing a switchover to their own network. Or just coincidence

[BlueHorseShoe]

I've been having intermittent problems for the past several weeks but especially the past few days. I love the @Home connection so I would hate to have to change.

[Lazamataz]

Ping! But, um, you are in the air flying right now. What's the point of pinging you. Oh! I know. In case you use an internet kiosk when you land!

[poindexter]

@Home cable connection 5 by 5 here in Olympia, WA.

[spycatcher]

Cox (hardball negotiators who care little about customers)is now running a blurb on channel 71 saying that we will "likely" lose service tonight. I don't even have a dialup modem in my system and don't plan on getting one. If it goes out they will lose tons of customers to DSL, so I'm betting it will only be out over the weekend at most.

There will also be a renewed push to eliminate the cable company monopoly over our cable lines. Then AOL etc will be able to offer cable access. These people are as stupid as the music companies when it comes to the internet.

[spycatcher]

Check DSL availability here for alternative broadband.

DSL Reports is also a good page for info and reviews

[meyer]

It is beginning to look like a power play. All the stakeholders are stating their case in various press releases. The bondholders probably want full replacement cost for their investment - that is, the cost of completely replacing the system. AT&T, on the other hand, wants to buy it as though it were a store full of used computer equipment. Somewhere in between is the answer. The judge just gave the bondholders some additional bargaining power.

One thing is for certain; if service is terminated, @home is done and cable internet service will be set back a few years. Yeah, the cable companies will take a hit, but internet service is but a small part of their business. I don't think AT&T has a very big stake in this either, relative to their size.

There's another thread on this subject here .

[IronJack]

I've got a dialup, but I don't have an ISP through dialup. I'd rather go back to chiseling my posts on stone tablets and hanging them in the public square.

[Joe Bonforte]

"My @home connection has been acting a bit odd tonight with periodic disconnects. Anyone else?"

Connection has been fine all week, but email has acted silly the last thirty-six hours. Works sometimes, doesn't work other times. I took this chance to tell everyone in my address book to switch to a different email account.

[Aurelius]

BUMP

[Glenn]

I signed up for a DSL line short-term until this @home thing is settled. It gave me the chance to do some speed testing. @home kicks DSL's butt.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

Memo to corporate brigands at Excite, Comcast et al:

Shut me out tonight and I'm done with the Internet. (many more like me, I'm sure).

[spycatcher]

Good idea. I would have, but I'm betting on sanity prevailing like the ABC in NYC deal. I may lose short-term though.

[MoJo2001]

Here in the Hampton Roads area there is an "Urgent Message to all Cox@Home subscribers" and it just doesn't look good. It will be sad to join the rest of America again with a SLOW MODEM..UGH! I'm sure those of you without DSL and Cable are really crying the Mocha a river, but hey..it's Friday..LOL! Much love to all of you!

[revtown]

surfing here on @home. got CD to switch to charter.net if @home crashes. going to wait until I go down. I think charter.net is trying to get people to switch from @home, so they get all the cut. Hopefully a price war will start like with long distance phone service when @home gets bought.