[[[ Excite@Home HAS gone dark !!! ]]] -- CableModem customers stranded!

12/01/2001 | Lazamataz

[Lazamataz]

I'm an @home customer, AT&T to be exact. At 8:15 CST, I no longer could access any pages. Not google.com, not cnn.com, none of the old standbys that ALWAYS work.

I've heard a lot about the poaaibility of @Home pulling the plug on 4.1 million customers. Did it happen? The only reason I can connect at all is that my lovely and gracious fiance also has a dialup account for when she is on the road, and I am calling in here using that. I am presently on hold on the AT&T@Home help line. I'll have more information.

Technically, the light is on but no pages are being connected. My Cable Modem is up and connected but nothing loads.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

not a particularly small town then or now.

I grew up in NYC when it had 1M more people than it does now. Please believe me when I say that Sioux Falls is a small town.

[VA Advogado]

My favorite for storage efficiency was the TI-99-4A (Texas Instruments) that allowed any audio recorder to saave data to. This enabled me to write huge files to my reel-to-reel machine. Even with such a Rube Goldberg rig, it never lost a byte.

I wasn't much into the hardware end of things, but I do remember being on AOL during my amber screen days running DOS. That when they charged an incredible $2.95 an HOUR.

[RadioAstronomer]

I still have an old PDP-8 with a teletype in the garage (still works). Not sure what to do with it. :) My main gaming computer, the one I am currently on is a 1.8Ghz P-4 with an Nvidia Gforce-3 vid card and 800Mhz dual channel ram. :)

[iowamomforfreedom]

Mediaone@home in eastern Iowa still up as of noon central time.

Holding my breath...

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Go Gators!

[sit-rep]

I'm on Comcast@Home and fully functional.

SR

[meyer]

Just called Comcast's customer hotline. The report, as of 10:00 AM EST is that they are negotiating around the clock and that Comcast is not aware of any service interruptions (I take it to mean interruptions on the Comcast network). There were no further details.

[John Robinson]

I was temporarily cut off from some "sights" last night as well. My provider is multi-homed, the routes over WorldCom (ie: to FR) worked fine, the routes over @Home's network (whatever that was) did not. Not long after that route was down did it come back online, this time on Exodus. The net was considerably slower last night as well. More traffic over fewer lines. Congestion.

[brydic1]

Mediacom in Jefferson City out as of 11:50 CST. I have AOL as backup

[chezjohn]

Hmm. I have Comcast@Home - it's noon Saturday & I'm still up & running. No problems here??

[Ramius]

Hey all... check this out: Internet Traffic Report

Shows some key x.home.com routers down.

[cyberangst]

I have Cox@Home in Virginia Beach, VA and I am currently still up and running at 1:20pm Saturday

[Ramius]

... and shows some still up.

[cyberangst]

I have Cox@home in Virginia Beach. I am currently up as of 1:20pm Saturday

[ScottinSacto]

You can add ATT - Folsom/Sacramento to your outage chart...stuck on AOhell via landline for awhile I guess, and to think I was running at T3 speed just last night...

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

Neat site for measuring speed. Here's my Cox connection. Glad I don't have to go back to "ugh" yet.

Your download speed : 1735503 bps, or 1735 kbps. Browsers would show : about a 211.8 k/sec transfer rate. Your upload speed : 283486 bps, or 283 kbps. Your connection rocks .. above the 1mbit barrier!

kbps

257

513

769

1025

1281

1537

1793

2049

2305

2561

How did your speed compare?

ugh

«33.6k modem download speed

ugh

«typical 56k modem download speed

slow

«single channel ISDN

bearable

«dual channel ISDN

ok

«IDSL

ok

«150k Video Stream

ok

«Fastest multiplayer games

fast

«192k 'near CD quality' MP3

faster

«300k Video Stream

rocks

«half megabit

awesome

«1mbit barrier

download

«1735 kbps

upload

«283 kbps

insane

(2mbit barrier not shown)

dude!

(5mbit barrier not shown)

=Your tested speed (grey = est. TCP transfer overhead)

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

Neat site. Very useful. Thanks. This explains why I had a slow connection -- along with everyone else -- yesterday afternoon. The 30 day graph shows yesterday was as slow as things have been since Nov 8-11.

[Slip18]

My speed was the same as yours! Thanks for the link. I feel sorry for everyone else on the dial-up connections, though.

Obviously, Laz, cable modems in the Phoenix area have not been affected yet.