I love the comment about the hostname on IRC.  It's true.  I had to ask 
someone that was using @home about their host being IP's.  I love the tech 
that couldn't figure out what DNS was.  But that's typical of a large 
company that just hires someone to be a butt in a chair.  That's all they 
care about and will ever care about.  As long as they are taking money from 
someone, they don't care what they provide them that works.

Kimi

At 11/28/01, you 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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