my @home is switching to cableone.net

RacerBoy · Post by **RacerBoy** » Wed Jul 11, 2001 12:39 am

anyone use this? Are they faster that @home? Have to switch by the 17th,and want to know.

Thanks Agustin
They list dl at 280 and upload at 128. This might suck. What speed is a regular @home account listed at?

http://www.cableone.net/cablemodem/CableModem2.asp

xbit · Post by **xbit** » Wed Jul 11, 2001 1:14 am

Well your going to have lower speeds

rodrod5 · Post by **rodrod5** » Wed Jul 11, 2001 2:56 am

where do you live racerboy???

:2cool:

Kip Patterson · Post by **Kip Patterson** » Wed Jul 11, 2001 5:13 am

That's a course record - 280 kbits down. A typical @Home location is 3 mbits down.

Good luck,

Kip

Bababooey · Post by **Bababooey** » Wed Jul 11, 2001 6:54 am

OMG cableone.net are thieves. $699.95 a month for a full T1 with a 512k upload? what the hell is that? 280k is going to limit your downloads to ~35k/s max

I recommend you start looking for a dsl provider asap.

Kip Patterson · Post by **Kip Patterson** » Wed Jul 11, 2001 7:07 am

Well, maybe. $699 is what Time Warner charges for the same without any CIR. This kind of pricing started when T-1's were $2000 per month, and at the time they represented a great savings. Today you can get a T-1 or SDSL in Columbus for maybe less than $600, but if you went to one of the smaller cities in Ohio you would still be over $1000.

All of the cableone.net locations are in the boonies. I bet they pay a bundle for their links to the web.

I'm curious - did your local cable company drop @Home?

Kip

ispark · Post by **ispark** » Wed Jul 11, 2001 8:03 am

My ISP, HTC@Home is fixing to drop @Home.

I'm sure their are more reasons than just the ones they told me about, but anyway, I'm glad that they are dropping @Home.

@Home throttles the download speed to 40KB/Sec reason #1
starts out at 360KB/Sec sometimes even higher and continually drops to 40KB/Sec during the course of the download

@Home constantly loseses the ability to accquire DHCP lease #2

@Home has severe email problems #3

@Home NOC support located in Tennesse? (HTC keeps mentioning that location) non-exsistent #4

These are just a few reasons my ISP is dropping @Home

Can't wait till the end of this month.....

RacerBoy · Post by **RacerBoy** » Wed Jul 11, 2001 12:43 pm

Originally posted by Kip Patterson

I'm curious - did your local cable company drop @Home?

Kip

ATT sold my local cable area to cableone. This was in February. I still got @home internet, and didn't think anything of it. Just got a letter today telling me that I have to switch over to cableone by the 17th. I am not going to switch over until the 16th. I hope this is still fast. On the DSL Reports test site I logged my zip code of 83350 and 83318(next town over) to see if anyone else was on there. I must be the only one that tweaks the connection. My speed test showed 3400kps and the local DSL provider was 610. Looks like I might be screwed. I guess I might have to take up the offer from local DSL place to work tech support part time and get a discount on the line

Agustin