eq_shadimar Posted December 3, 2001 Share Posted December 3, 2001 The lights are off and there is nobody @Home with AT&T Broadband. No internet connection at my house and lord only knows what is going to happen to my web page. God I am not going back to dialup!! (no offense to modem users) Hopefully this will all get fixed soon. Until then you will get errors try to access my home page and old e-mail address. Laters, ------------------ ...wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world... My Home Theater Page Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Posted December 3, 2001 Share Posted December 3, 2001 Excite@home is out of business ... ------------------ Cornwalls & Klipsch subs; leather couch & feet up; lights out & tubes glowing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justin_tx_16 Posted December 3, 2001 Share Posted December 3, 2001 there WERE talks of AT&T taking it over... but don't really know what came of that. ------------------ -justin I am an amateur, if it is professional; ProMedia help you want email Amy or call her @ 1-888-554-5665 Klipsch Home Audio help you want, email support@klipsch.com or call @ 1-800-KLIPSCH RA# Fax Number=317-860-9140 / Parts Department Fax Number=317-860-9150 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justin_tx_16 Posted December 3, 2001 Share Posted December 3, 2001 here is the full story Excite@Home pulls the plug on AT&T cable Net By George A. Chidi Jr., IDG News Service When cable Internet provider Excite@Home Inc. stopped answering the customer service calls from AT&T Corp.'s customers in the early hours of Saturday morning, AT&T knew for certain that the Internet service provider had pulled the plug. Excite@Home received permission from a federal bankruptcy court on Friday to shut down service to its cable company partners at midnight local time in California. Even though AT&T has a US$307 million bid on the table to buy out the troubled ISP, negotiations broke down on Friday evening and, almost immediately, Excite@Home began cutting off service to AT&T, stranding 850,000 customers without high-speed Internet service. AT&T Broadband Inc. had moved about 330,000 customers from Excite@Home's network to the new AT&T Broadband Internet network by Monday morning, according to an AT&T press release. Another 327,000 cable Internet subscribers in San Francisco and Illinois are scheduled to be moved Monday and Tuesday, AT&T said. The company expects to have all its customers on the new network in the next few days. At present, according to AT&T, areas without service include parts of Chicago; the state of Connecticut; Denver and its Rocky Mountain region in the mountain West; Pittsburgh; Salt Lake City; Sacramento and the Bay Area in California; and some Michigan markets. People close to the matter say AT&T refused to pay a share of the US$300 million demanded by Excite@Home to keep the network running, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Cox Communications Inc. and Comcast Corp. both signed a letter of intent to pay Excite@Home's maintenance requirements, according to the report. Excite@Home is playing a game of chicken with their cable partners, according to one analyst. "They've got the AT&T buyout on the table, and it gives them peanuts," Walter Janowski, a research director at technology market research firm Gartner Inc. "They've got nothing to lose" by shutting off service. Excite@Home's creditors wanted the freedom to shut down the network to give leverage to their negotiations with the cable companies for either a buyout or more favorable contract terms. Several cable companies filed an emergency motion for a stay pending an appeal to the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the 9th Circuit in Pasadena, California on Friday afternoon, and all except AT&T continued negotiations over the weekend, according to an Excite@Home statement. AT&T and other cable companies had been preparing for the possibility of a service shutdown for months, pacing the rate of their network build-out to the accelerating decline of Excite@Home's finances. Though many cable companies had equipment of their own ready to be turned on when Excite@Home's servers disconnected the company's Internet subscribers, the language of their contracts forbade them from switching over the networks as a proactive measure. "We've taken a process that would have taken nine to 12 months and made it into nine to 12 weeks," said Andy Morgan, a Charter Communications Inc. spokesman. Charter had 140,000 customers on the Excite@Home service -- about 20 percent of its Internet subscribers, he said. When Judge Thomas E. Carlson of the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Northern California issued the ruling permitting Excite@Home to break its master distribution agreements, he also permitted Charter to start the switch. All but about 14,000 customers had been switched over to the Charter Pipeline service on Sunday, he said. Charter will finish the job once the local phone company provisions lines for the remaining customers in Washington and Oregon, he added. Those of Excite@Home's 4.2 million customers still connected to the Internet at cable bandwidth likely dread the prospect of returning to a dial-up connection one-tenth the speed. Cable companies had been winning the battle against broadband over DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) and broadband over satellite dish, said an analyst. But after customers have waited months and months for service, an outage could eat away at cable's lead, said Janowski. "My gut feeling, I think anything more than two weeks is too long," he said. "If I'm a customer and they're telling me 30 days, 60 days ... (cable companies) don't have the credibility." ------------------ -justin I am an amateur, if it is professional; ProMedia help you want email Amy or call her @ 1-888-554-5665 Klipsch Home Audio help you want, email support@klipsch.com or call @ 1-800-KLIPSCH RA# Fax Number=317-860-9140 / Parts Department Fax Number=317-860-9150 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eq_shadimar Posted December 4, 2001 Author Share Posted December 4, 2001 Testing 1...2...3 Back online with high speed again woohoo. For what it is worth ATT Broadband handled this changeover great!! Home page is posted and open for visits again. Laters, ------------------ ...wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world... My Home Theater Page My Home Theater Page Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eq_shadimar Posted December 4, 2001 Author Share Posted December 4, 2001 Hehe ok testing 4...5...6 Now hopefully the sig works correctly. Bye, ------------------ ...wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world... My Home Theater Page Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justin_tx_16 Posted December 4, 2001 Share Posted December 4, 2001 glad to read that it all worked out ok! ------------------ -justin I am an amateur, if it is professional; ProMedia help you want email Amy or call her @ 1-888-554-5665 Klipsch Home Audio help you want, email support@klipsch.com or call @ 1-800-KLIPSCH RA# Fax Number=317-860-9140 / Parts Department Fax Number=317-860-9150 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bacevedo Posted December 9, 2001 Share Posted December 9, 2001 The worst part of the whole thing is the domain changes. I don't care who the ISP is, but if I have to change my email address from @home.com to @cox.com, that is going to be a major pain in the ***. My wife has 1000 business cards that we just printed up with her business name @home.com. The thought of these all either having to be manually changed every time she gives them out, or printing up new ones is not fun. And then I will have to go to every place that I have my email address registered (that is important, like the bank, credit cards, etc.) and change them. This whole thing really bugs me. I never knew how much Cox (my provider) was dependent on Excite. They were happily taking my $30 a month, but never telling me that their provider was having financial problems and close to bankruptcy. Shame on them! Plus, how can Excite actually go out of business. I mean come on, they were pulling in a good chunk of change for all these cable users, and they still can't stay alive. Sounds like corrupt management to me, and now they can just declare bankruptcy and screw everyone over that was using their service, and these corrupt managers won't have any criminal consequences. But I bet they are millionaires from cashing in their stock options when the going was good, so they could care less. Bryan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougdrake2 Posted December 9, 2001 Share Posted December 9, 2001 Bryan - I understand your pain That's why I use web-based email (Hotmail, Yahoo, etc...) so I can change ISPs at will, if needed... Doug ------------------ My System Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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