hm....i don't know what you all are talking about couse my comcast@home still works, and they send an e-mail saying that they got everything straighned out and its gonna be all right.....

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Originally posted by RavingLunatic @home is out of buisness. that means shaw@home, rogers@home, etc, are all toast.. go check out www.di.fm for details, and a kick ass trance radio station.

hmm? where'd you here that from? rogers and shaw aren't toast. nowhere near it. my cable works totally fine. it's excite (aka @HOME) and only excite that is possibly going bankrupt. it has nothing to do with rogers or shaw.

lynx..check the papers, yesterday there was an article in the Calgary herald that 100 of thousands of US customers were gonna be sans net, and only thousands of canadian customers.

Somebody big is bankrupt

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Originally posted by Lynx hmm? where'd you here that from? rogers and shaw aren't toast. nowhere near it. my cable works totally fine. it's excite (aka @HOME) and only excite that is possibly going bankrupt. it has nothing to do with rogers or shaw.

exactly, i have rogers@home, as well, i only had 2 change my password and email, coz i think EXCITE@HOME, wants 2 join rogers

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Originally posted by j_spot lynx..check the papers, yesterday there was an article in the Calgary herald that 100 of thousands of US customers were gonna be sans net, and only thousands of canadian customers. Somebody big is bankrupt

tru say, somebody big is bankrupt. but i know for a fact it ain't rogers or shaw. it's excite@home. thank goodness.

i'm using shaw as my isp and recently my download speeds went as high as 2.5MB/sec (4 files at 600+ k/sec) combined.

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Ok, just to clear up some things:

The only @home network that is going down is EXCITE@HOME...
Rogers@Home and Shaw@Home have recently split from Excite@Home, and they are not using Excite@Home network anymore (I guess they realized that if they didn't split, Excite@Home would pull them down too).

Here is the article from isonews.com, about the current outages for some @home users (Rogers & Shaw are in no way affected):

"Excite@Home cut off service to 16% of its customers on sunday due to the company's bankruptcy. AT&T has restored service to more than a third of its customers -- about 226,000 subscribers -- by moving them to its own network. ATT said it could take as long as 10 days to restore service to the other 640,000 subscribers across the United States. This move comes after Excite@Home executives said current contracts with cable companies were costing the company up to $6 million per week!"

And regarding the download speeds some of you are wondering about, you can actually download with speeds up to 1MB/sec or so, but only if the server that you are downloading from can send that file at 1MB/sec. I am saying this because I have been downloading with speeds around 800-900Kb/s, but only from certain servers (some OC48 servers).
So, if you find a server that is hooked up on one of these OC networks, and can send you a file at 1 GB/sec, then you should be able to receive it at 1 GB/sec, even tho your processor would fry in that case... (I guess)

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