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To: Walter W. Powell who wrote (26732)	12/8/2000 1:53:04 AM
From: 2sigma	Respond to of 29970

My very question not more than 4 hrs ago. I use it. Very Very fast. Very helpful tech support. Got install team out here next day after my purchase order. Had some conflict with the Farallon PCMCIA adapter. Called for support. ATT sent out to my site a tech, put in a SCM card, spent one hr. on my box. Fixed it. Works like a champ. One hitch. E-mail has periodic outages I'm told. Haven't experienced it...yet. I highly recommend the service. I live in a rural area, so the load on the trunk line is minimal, even at peak usage. Haps.

To: Walter W. Powell who wrote (26732)	12/8/2000 9:07:43 AM
From: Bexar	Respond to of 29970

We've have ATHM also, since the original rollout. Only once, a while ago, experienced an email problem. We are in an area where everyone seems to have it, we were one of the first. And, haven't seen a slowdown at all, in fact, it's faster now than the original install. BTW, Happy, isn't that a Fallaron card and and SMC NIC? Bex

To: Walter W. Powell who wrote (26732)	12/8/2000 11:39:53 AM
From: GraceZ	Respond to of 29970

I would sign up now, and dump aol, if my cable provider offered the service. Who is your cable company? If they aren't a partner MSO you could wait a long time. If they are a partner you can speed them up by calling @Home directly because it gets you on a list of people wanting the service (they track these things and roll out those areas next where they can reap the most customers) Lots of us that post on the board have the service. I waited about a year and a half for @Home to be offered in my rural area. I just kept calling them until I wore them down. The service can be wonderful but it took a little bit of experimentation on my part to get it to run optimally. Win98 is not optimized for broadband, so you need to tweak your system in order to get the advertised speed. Also, the @Home browser doesn't allow you to turn off their proxy server (the servers are sometimes very slow- the opposite of their intent), so you find yourself using IE or Netscape versions that aren't the @Home versions. The email problem has been annoying, but I understand that the problems are occurring primarily because they are upgrading the email system wide, so one can only hope that they will finish soon and we will have a better system. Given all that, I would never go back to dialup if I had a choice of cable, never. I have a DSL connection at work and while it is much better than dialup its no where near as fast as cable and it costs more (business rates). If they rolled the @Home service near my studio I'd drop DSL in a minute.

To: Walter W. Powell who wrote (26732)	12/8/2000 12:25:19 PM
From: asenna1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

Does anyone posting here use athm? 'You know, this issue doesn't seem to resignate with the people.' And I said, you know something? Whether it resignates or not doesn't matter to me, because I stand for doing what's the right thing, and what the right thing is hearing the voices of people who work." - GWB

To: Walter W. Powell who wrote (26732)	12/8/2000 12:35:19 PM
From: Kenneth V. McNutt	Respond to of 29970

<<Does anyone posting here use athm?>> Walter I have had @home for several months after running the gamut of 56k modem and satellite. Satellite was a huge improvement over modem but unreliable during inclement weather. @home finally became available after I had spent a great deal of money to install satellite to 5 outlets in my new home including 1 computer outlet. I immediately changed to cable and @home and the increase in speed and reliability is astounding. I have a complete Direct Duo(computer) satellite system available for sale. Each evening I download quotes and graphs of 500 kb or so and it is done in seconds instead of minutes. Some downloads are so swift I don't realize it has finished. Love @home. Put me down as a satisfied user. Ken

To: Walter W. Powell who wrote (26732)	12/9/2000 7:23:23 AM
From: Jim TenIron	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

Hi Walter and board. This is my first time to post on this thread, but I have been keeping a keen eye on ATHM, doing some DD, and looking for a good reason to buy at this rock bottom price. So far, I haven't found a reason to buy yet. To many unknowns. I use the RR service, which I might add, has been a great service. ATHM is not offered in my area. I have friends who use ATHM, and have heard both pros and cons. Most cons have been related to speed, with one friend saying he was thinking of switching to a DSL service. I will NEVER go back to a phone connection as the cable speed is incredible, and the price for me was a wash (drop a phone line and AOL monthly charge). I'm not up to speed on this, but does anyone think if AOL and Time Warner merge that AOL will be bundled with RR? Kinda like how I use IE as a front end? Replace IE with AOL. Just a question, and like I said, I have no idea what this business is all about. Just looking for reasons why the stock price is so depressed, and ready to jump in at the first sign of life, or a clear direction stated from the company.