@home posts huge loss
What does this mean for all of us users? I know there are quite a few out there. They claim they will have to shutdown by years end if extra funding is not received. Who here has @home?
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What does this mean for all of us users? I know there are quite a few out there. They claim they will have to shutdown by years end if extra funding is not received. Who here has @home?
DaveLadies and gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice. -
I just did last week
Paul"Never interfere with the enemy when he is in the process of destroying himself" -
Cool. I've never met a technologically skilled person who was actually happy with the service @Home provides. If they fail, I wonder who would buy the infrastructure?
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I got a couple of bucks stashed away, maybe I'll take over 8D
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Unfortunately, it will probably be there biggest competitor, Comcast? is that the name? Or worse yet, noone will buy them due to the crappy economy and I'd have to switch to DSL! yuck!
DaveLadies and gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice.Comment
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DSL here... no complaints... he he...
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I thought Comcast and @home were the same company.
Anyway, I have spent the last year and-a-half on a crappy mutiplexed phone line that only got half the bandwidth of a regular phone line. That's 26.4Kbps maybe 28.8 on a good day.
So, even with the upload capped around 141Kbps and download around 2300Kbps I'm in nirvana
Paul"Never interfere with the enemy when he is in the process of destroying himself"Comment
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@Home has three founding companies who invested the $$ and resources to lay all the ground work and got it going. If I'm not mistaken it's BellSouth, Comcast and Cox."Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." -- Dr. Seuss
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This was probably going to happen sooner or later. Cable provides (generally) a lot of bandwidth for low prices, and I somehow doubt the companies are making any money.Comment
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Dammit! They better not fold. I don't want to go back to my crappy 32kbps dial-up. DSL's not available...
I guess I could go Sprint Wireless....
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Has anyone heard how the quality of the Sprint Braodband is? http://www.sprintbroadband.com/
At this time, it's my only (affordable) option -- still no cable or DSL availability.
Paul: Our neighborhoods must have been wired by the same phone guys...
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Beez, this is what I get for Availability.
Ill never get high speed."At this time, our service is not available in your market area. "
And now as Oboy starts his crying!
Ill be a HPB FOREVER Waaaaaaa
God I hope you can get it and it turns out to be a good thing for you. Beez a LPB with a Shock Rifle! OMG!!!
OboyTime to make the wafers!
Oboy Inside!
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