@home shutting down?

[Digital Wokan]

Hrm.  It's gonna be harder to watch my uptime climb on netcraft now.  I
guess I gotta hope I only suffer one changeover to the DHCP and then I
don't lose power so long that my UPS runs out, too.

Tyler Hall wrote:
> 
> Ahh.. @Home..  Gotta love them.  I just actually got there service in my
> house about a month ago, I asked the technician that came out to my house
> about the whole home.com bankrupty and this is what he told me (who knows if
> it's true, he's just a idiot that works for cox@)
> 
> Excite@Home went bankrupt, and so they sold it to ATT (I believe) and ATT
> wasn't doing good either, so what cox did was they bought part of there
> service from @home, and they made there own cable service.  It is now called
> SP@Home.
> 
> So, I asked what is the difference between SP@home?  They said nothing!
> Execpt Cox@ owns it, instead of @Home.     Even though I have home.com email
> addresses still but who knows.
> 
> The only big difference from cox@home and sp@home which I hate is, that you
> don't have to change your computer name to cx23815901385 or anything anymore.
> 
> You no longer get a static ip either, it's true DHCP,  if you log off your
> machine for a few hours, you will have a new ip in the morning.    Which
> bugged the crap out of me, so I just went and bought a router,  have had the
> same ip for 3 weeks now ;-)
> 
> I asked why they changed to DHCP, and they told me because cox@ only bought a
> certain amount of ips from home.com, and they don't have enough ips to give
> everyone a static ip anymore.
> 
> Another disadvantage of sp@home is for the IRC users.    They make it so your
> ip will resolve to some hostname, but that hostname doesnt resolve.
> 
> So, when your on IRC, you won't have a hostname anymore, it will all by IPs,
> which suck for access lists and such if you use them by hostnames.
> 
> I called Cox@ and asked them whats up with that, and they couldn't come up
> with a answer for me.   One guy even asked me what DNS was.
> 
> But the speeds between sp@home and cox@home are no different.   I can't
> notice a difference.   The guy also said that cox was converting all of there
> customers to sp@home within a few months.  Who knows?
> 
> Tyler Hall
> 
> On Wednesday 28 November 2001 01:41 pm, you wrote:
> > Check out this article.  The @home service may be shutting down on Friday.
> >
> > http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/breaking/1128NET-TECH-EXCITEHOME-DC.
> >html
> >
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