Cox provides the wiring to the home, @Home provided the "service" such
as name servers, e-mail (joke that that was), news services, account
management, and portal (anyone who didn't know how to change their
default home page was stuck with that crap).

Nathan England wrote:
> 
> I just read an article on the NYTime site about Cox and Comcast may drop
> the At Home internet service.
> I was under the assumption that @Home was owned by cox and they
> controlled all the servers.
> So now I'm quite confused.  What exactley does cox do? They provide
> cable tv and what?  No internet services?
> 
> http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/01/technology/01WEB.html
> 
> Can someone explain this to me?
> 
> nathan