@Home

[willg at bluesock.org (will)]

I think ATT Broadband is a big umbrella for their broadband network which
is made up of a lot of little networks depending on your location and when
they brought that area of the network online.  

I don't think I will be affected, though I did lose connectivity last
night at around 2:00am (might have been a fluke).  My hostname is
somemacaddress.ne.mediaone.net and I never use their email, so I don't
know offhand what my email address would be.

Slashdot had an article a few days ago about the @home thing and there
were a bunch of comments.  After reading them and the vague ATT Broadband 
website on the @home thing, I came to the conclusion that there isn't an
accurate litmus test as to whether you're going to be affected and exactly
how until after the fact.

slashdot article: 
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/28/0050236&mode=thread

ATT broadband announcement website:
http://help.broadband.att.com/index.jsp?lobid=1&defaultchecked=1

Course, the information seems to change hourly, so I don't know if I would 
come to the same conclusion now that I did yesterday.
/will


On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Peter R. Wood wrote:

> So, I'm confused about this closing down of the @Home network. From what I
> can tell as a subscriber to AT&T Broadband (formerly Mediaone) here in
> Woburn, the only thing I am going to be missing is the @Home homepage
> content (which I never used and don't care about). From the letters and
> communications I've seen from ATTBB, it seems that they own the network and
> ip services, and all @Home does for them is creates the specialized homepage
> content. I have read that other networks which partner with @Home are
> actually urging their customers to find backup plans, implying that the loss
> of @Home will cause a loss of network connectivity.  But AT&T doesn't seem
> to be implying that the loss of @Home will cause ATTBB customers to lose
> their net connections. Am I missing something?
> 
> Peter
> --
> Peter R. Wood - prw at prwdot.org - http://prwdot.org/

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