Comcast Cable Modem still working fine here in Albuquerque. Does anyone know if excite@home goes belly up whether the existing connection to the cable company would allow you to TCP/IP to another ISP? Even though I hate AOL, I have a free-year and would use it as an alternative ISP in the interim.
Maybe. I am not privy to any inside info about their network, but I am a techy. I suspect that the routers and such might be at your local cable company and these just might continue to work (or they might not). They might turn off your DHCP server that gives you your IP address, so you would need to know a fixed IP address that you could use.
They might also turn off the DNS servers as well, which translate names like www.freerepublic.com into a numeric IP address. In fact, this may have already happened to me (see above post)