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Excite@Home may be shutting down service after Nov 30.
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<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5100012,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01" target="_blank">http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5100012,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01</a> <-- heres the info
Looks like the Sheriff Might be going back to dialup...
that is so incredibly depressing Sherrif
dont take away my broadband Excite!!! damn you!!!
*cry*
my only other choice here would be the unstable at all speeds DSL service for $10.00 more than my cable......or ...dial up.
/me just going to cross fingers and hope that i won't lose my broadband.
If so then I guess I will have to get DSL.....
All I can say this is just another thing piled on top of my bad week.
Ok my b/f works at a company that provides this, they have been told nothing either way, although he did say, he doesn't think its real likely.
One can hope! :(
The three Canadian ISP's that use @home are bailing:
Cogeco has officially severed all ties with @home, and are running everything on their own network.
Rogers and Shaw are in various states of transition from @home, lately they have been focusing on new email addresses and servers for their customers.
[quote]Originally posted by Sheriff Q:
<strong>Excite@Home may be shutting down service after Nov 30.
<a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/663926.asp?0si=-" target="_blank">http://www.msnbc.com/news/663926.asp?0si=-</a>
<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5100012,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01" target="_blank">http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5100012,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01</a> <-- heres the info
Looks like the Sheriff Might be going back to dialup...</strong><hr></blockquote>
Dude! I heard about that last night on the news. That suxx! Excite @home is going bankrupt and the government is forcing them to shut down.
AT&T has already informed its users that if they are not allowed to purchase and operate Excite's broadband operations, they have already setup their own infrastructure to keep everybody on line without interruption.
Yeah, I got that letter too, they said there could be a small interuption, but hopefully not major.
a geek without my internet? NOT a pretty thing!
Hmm...with my experience with AT&T I would say that you still might be up the creek. I have never seen a company as big as AT&T screw up a wet dream but they amazed me and did.
I feel sorry for anyone that is used to high speed dropping to dialup. Hopefully, you will be ok. :)
I could switch to DSL if necessary.....
i would probably end up switching to DSL also...
[quote]Originally posted by Sheriff Q:
<strong>Excite@Home may be shutting down service after Nov 30.
</strong><hr></blockquote>Wow another thing shutting down that you use, whats the chances of that???
:)
[quote]Originally posted by El Batcho:
<strong>Wow another thing shutting down that you use, whats the chances of that???
:) </strong><hr></blockquote>
TELL ME you did NOT just say that!
/me does the Spin-a-roonie
[quote]Originally posted by Venom:
<strong>
TELL ME you did NOT just say that!
/me does the Spin-a-roonie</strong><hr></blockquote>Naw what I meant is that you know stores close every night and stuff, and with the economy and all the .com companies going belly up from unloyal and treasonous users that things seem to close a lot.
:)
[quote]Originally posted by Sheriff Q:
<strong>Excite@Home may be shutting down service after Nov 30.
<a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/663926.asp?0si=-" target="_blank">http://www.msnbc.com/news/663926.asp?0si=-</a>
<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5100012,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01" target="_blank">http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5100012,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01</a> <-- heres the info
Looks like the Sheriff Might be going back to dialup...</strong><hr></blockquote>
well I have had excite@home for a while,and I live in so cal,what they told me is that the transition from excite to powerlink@home will be seamless and smooth and no rate changes.my emails will change from @home.com to @powerlink.com is the worst that will happen.actually another good thing is that they will bill it on my cable bill instead of a separate bill.
I think the performance of the system will get better too,now that they will have money to do repairs and upgrades.
so I geuss I am lucky.. :)