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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