@home shutting down?

[Tyler Hall]

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.
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