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Technology Stocks : AUTOHOME, Inc -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bob Zacks who wrote (908)	12/12/1997 12:06:00 AM
From: Melissa McAuliffe	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 29970

I recently got interested in this company after reading the article in Barron's on 12/1 which was really a 3COM article but mentioned @home. Would appreciate it if someone could explain how @home fits into the picture with the cable companies. We just got this service available this summer from Comcast after they converted us to fiber optic. So until I read the article I thought everything was through/with or by Comcast..not even knowing companies like @home existed. Comcast does the advertising, installs the modem, bills the customer(I think) and owns the cable. So I'm trying to figure out where @home fits in here. Does @home get paid by Comcast for every customer? I went to their web site and this wasn't clear to me. I haven't gotten this service yet because I was told there are no modems available for laptops. But after reading that the speed is 100x faster than current speeds I am seriously considering get a desktop PC just so I can have this. I am going to go back and read all the 900+ messages on this thread(can't help thinking how much faster this could be if I had this service) so I can get caught up with what's gone on here but if someone could help with my question I would greatly appreciate it. Melissa