Speaking of keeping my ip for 3 weeks, @Home was down for 15 minutes 
yesterday, once it came back up, I had a different ip.    Boy, am I gonna 
love this. 

Tyler


On Wednesday 28 November 2001 11:37 pm, you wrote:
> Hrm.  It's gonna be harder to watch my uptime climb on netcraft now.  I
> guess I gotta hope I only suffer one changeover to the DHCP and then I
> don't lose power so long that my UPS runs out, too.
>
> Tyler Hall wrote:
> > Ahh.. @Home..  Gotta love them.  I just actually got there service in my
> > house about a month ago, I asked the technician that came out to my house
> > about the whole home.com bankrupty and this is what he told me (who knows
> > if it's true, he's just a idiot that works for cox@)
> >
> > Excite@Home went bankrupt, and so they sold it to ATT (I believe) and ATT
> > wasn't doing good either, so what cox did was they bought part of there
> > service from @home, and they made there own cable service.  It is now
> > called SP@Home.
> >
> > So, I asked what is the difference between SP@home?  They said nothing!
> > Execpt Cox@ owns it, instead of @Home.     Even though I have home.com
> > email addresses still but who knows.
> >
> > The only big difference from cox@home and sp@home which I hate is, that
> > you don't have to change your computer name to cx23815901385 or anything
> > anymore.
> >
> > You no longer get a static ip either, it's true DHCP,  if you log off
> > your machine for a few hours, you will have a new ip in the morning.   
> > Which bugged the crap out of me, so I just went and bought a router, 
> > have had the same ip for 3 weeks now ;-)
> >
> > I asked why they changed to DHCP, and they told me because cox@ only
> > bought a certain amount of ips from home.com, and they don't have enough
> > ips to give everyone a static ip anymore.
> >
> > Another disadvantage of sp@home is for the IRC users.    They make it so
> > your ip will resolve to some hostname, but that hostname doesnt resolve.
> >
> > So, when your on IRC, you won't have a hostname anymore, it will all by
> > IPs, which suck for access lists and such if you use them by hostnames.
> >
> > I called Cox@ and asked them whats up with that, and they couldn't come
> > up with a answer for me.   One guy even asked me what DNS was.
> >
> > But the speeds between sp@home and cox@home are no different.   I can't
> > notice a difference.   The guy also said that cox was converting all of
> > there customers to sp@home within a few months.  Who knows?
> >
> > Tyler Hall
> >
> > On Wednesday 28 November 2001 01:41 pm, you wrote:
> > > Check out this article.  The @home service may be shutting down on
> > > Friday.
> > >
> > > http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/breaking/1128NET-TECH-EXCITEHOME
> > >-DC. html
> > >
> > > Tom Achtenberg
> > > Database Administrator/Developer
> > > Food for the Hungry/US
> > > 7729 E Greenway Rd
> > > Scottsdale, AZ 85260
> > > (480) 609-7750 (voice)
> > > (480) 443-1420 (fax)
> > > Tom.Achtenberg@FH.org
> > >
> > > Find out what YOU can do to help the hungry at
> > > http://www.fh.org
> > > http://www.eSponsorship.org
>
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