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Hobbes
February 25th, 2001, 10:17
Your views of AT&T At Home Cable Internet Service?
Rodie
February 25th, 2001, 16:17
Well, I don't have AT&T@home, but I do have Cox@home, but it's pretty much the same company that runs the service (@home).

Anyway, I have no problems at all with the service. I usually get downloads somewhere around 150-300 KB/sec. The only time I ever get bad speeds is on Napster because some idiots with 56K modems like to list their connectionsas T3, or T1.


A lot of people seem to have a problem with their mail service though. I have not experienced any problems with my @home mail account however.

Just make sure to do a manual installation and *do not* install the @home software. And try not to use their proxy server either. My connection speed is a lot faster when I don't use the proxy.
keith
February 25th, 2001, 17:13
i get the exact opposite. i'll have people pinging at 20, but are listed as 56k. then when i go to download, it goes at like 100+k/sec. 56k my ---.
Nick
February 25th, 2001, 18:13
Yup. 56k guys listed as T1 and T1 guys listed at 14kbps. At least you can put T1 in and the people that put 14kbps still show up :D.
Coolin
February 25th, 2001, 19:31
AT&T@Home? I see something wrong here, why is a telephone company offering cable internet? Shouldn't DSL be their choice?
atlas
February 25th, 2001, 19:42
Originally posted by Coolin
AT&T@Home? I see something wrong here, why is a telephone company offering cable internet? Shouldn't DSL be their choice?

AT&T bought out a lot of cable companies in the last few years.

Over the last few months AT&T has experienced at least 2 major DNS outages that lasted basically the whole day. Other than that, there's not too much else to say.

mjk@atlascgi.com
Coolin
February 25th, 2001, 20:44
Oh great... AT&T had a monopoly on the telephone business. Now it's expanding to cable...
Hobbes
February 25th, 2001, 22:10
yeah everyone hates their mail server. It runs pretty fast for me except in the evenings ping to places is 100-600 at the worst. I like it ok.
Mandrake
February 25th, 2001, 22:39
Originally posted by Coolin
AT&T@Home? I see something wrong here, why is a telephone company offering cable internet? Shouldn't DSL be their choice?

AT&T bought out TeleCommunications Inc. (TCI), a year or two ago. They were one of the largest cable companies in the country.