@home is changing to @rogers

[chuckieland]

people on cable internet here
have you get notice to change your email address
i'm using roger@home service here
now, i have to change to to @rogers.com
now i have to email all the people i know
including AT forum for a new password

 

[Schlocemus]

Well, anything for an increase in performance! Boy does my @home service suck :disgust:

 

[Nefrodite]

well atleast you have broadband:|

 

[Schlocemus]

<< well atleast you have broadband:| >>



50% of the time I have NO connection It really sucks, but with my hours I'm never around for their stupid Tech support. I know that my R/F signals are slow, but I couldn't find a two-way amplifier anywhere...

 

[narzy]

<<

<< well atleast you have broadband:| >>



50% of the time I have NO connection It really sucks, but with my hours I'm never around for their stupid Tech support. I know that my R/F signals are slow, but I couldn't find a two-way amplifier anywhere... >>



I might beable to help you out, what area are you in?

 

[Looney]

You're using @rogers when you live in Pennsylvania?! I thought that was local to our rogers cable company.

Anyways, it does suck... i've had this email for about 3 years now, prior to that i had another email for 2 years before they changed it. How much could they really be saving to screw so many of us over?

 

[narzy]

<< people on cable internet here
have you get notice to change your email address
i'm using roger@home service here
now, i have to change to to @rogers.com
now i have to email all the people i know
including AT forum for a new password >>



as for that, I am sorry, however some of the services are starting their own service when excite kida keeled over, @home is now AT&T, taking them off the @home network, and forceing them to use their own services.

 

[Schlocemus]

Lower Merion Township, Gladwyne
(Montgomery County, PA)

 

[Schlocemus]

<< You're using @rogers when you live in Pennsylvania?! I thought that was local to our rogers cable company.

Anyways, it does suck... i've had this email for about 3 years now, prior to that i had another email for 2 years before they changed it. How much could they really be saving to screw so many of us over? >>



No, I'm not, I'm using Comcast@Home ...

 

[goob2k]

Hmm. I have Insight@home and haven't noticed any changes in my @home e-mail address (but that might be because I don't actually use it).

 

[ChrichtonsGirl]

Charter@home.com has changed to Charter.net. And of course, since I switched to Charter Pipeline broadband, it's been slooooooow. I took care of all the address change stuff earlier this week, since I don't know how much longer I'll still be able to get to my @home mail.

 

[Zwingle]

@Home is still @Home...ATT has not gotten approval to buy @Home....just the assets of the company....ATT drove @Home into the crapper so they could buy the assets for pennies on the dollar.....there are now 2 lawsuits against ATT, @Home and others, one of which I am involved in as a shareholder. The bondholders of the company are asking the bk judge to have @Home sevr all contract with the cable companies and shut down the network to force the cable companied to pay more to them....they currently only get 35% of the cut from each subscriber. Here is the story...judge for yourself if you think ATT is guilty.

 

[Looney]

Wow that's wierd... so comcast@home is requiring you to use @rogers? We had to switch to @rogers, but i thought that was because our cable service is Rogers@home

 

[gopunk]

@Home is still @Home

thank you zwingle... would the rest of you please stop saying "@home" when you really mean your local provider, like rogers@home? it is not the same! i'm sick of seeing subject lines that make me think my service is going to be affected when it really only applies to a part of the country (or world ) that i'm nowhere close to.

 

[Pepsi90919]

COGECO@Home users in southern ontario were prompted weeks ago to change their addresses to @cogeco.ca. I'm surprised rogers got on so late.

it was an entirely different country, gopunk.

 

[Dragnov]

<< well atleast you have broadband:| >>



Well just for note, although my "broadband" is up and running 99% of the time... half of the day it goes slower than 14.4 modem... I tested it and I got about 96kbps. Nothing like trying to play CS or Diablo II Expansion at 5000 ping!!! :| I have Cox@Home in Irvine. It really sucks.

 

[Talon]

This transition applies only to Rogers cable internet customers. It does not apply to all @Home customers. Rogers will still use @home for internet access but they are taking the email, news and personal website servers in-house. They were supposed to make the change today (Nov. 22) but have postponed until at least noon the 23rd in order to further test the new servers. The current email addresses are still supposed to be working until the 30th. For Rogers customers, their new homepage is located at this site. More information about the transition can be found at site 2

 

[Pr0Hawk]

I don't think this effects me because I am on At&t @home...

 

[Talon]

Pr0Hawk

It only applies to customers of Rogers Cable (Canada). It wouldn't affect you.

 

[goog40]

Adelphia users who have Powerlink@Home are also being switched over to Adelphia's own network migration schedule

From a post in DSLR:
"Just an FYI for any of you in a Powerlink @Home area. (Anyone that was Comcast@Home in Orange county, CA, Century @home in So Cal or Colorado Springs, or Daniels@Home, before Adelphia bought those systems.)
Bankrupcy Courts are rejecting @Home's attempts to resolve their credit problems. They are at risk of going dark by 11/30. Adelphia is pushing forward their attempts to move all these areas onto the Adelphia network by this date."

 

[Pepsi90919]

Talon, it applies to more people than just Rogers' customers.

 

[Talon]

Pepsi,

@homes problems apply to all providers using the @home service but only Rogers customers would be switching to the @rogers.com extensions. The thread title gave the impression that all @home customers would be changing to the @rogers.com extension.

 

[NicColt]

Rogers just like Cogeco, shaw, comcast were all just buying bandwith and internet services from @home which was 'adequate' for Rogers not perfect but good enough, now they all need to find a new provider and for rogers they are buying it from Teleglobe.net so basically rogers is still a middle man. Teleglobe are known as 'Cheap Internet' if you think @home was bad, things will get worse much worse with Teleglobe.net

In just two days my mail and news access went from an average of 80ms with @home to 380ms with teleglobe with %17 packet loss. For a national Canadian ISP broadband provider, rogers still does not have an internet gateway so for me who's in Ottawa I have to go through Buffalo and NY and back to T.O. before accessing my mail news and web. This sux ass big time. On top of that Binaries and newsgroups are running at %1 or %2 completion and have a retention of 3/days max. So for 1/2 Million customers newsgroups are useless.

Rogers has over 550,000 (total) customers in Canada and I can't get better than 380ms latency and %1 or %2 binariy completion and 3/day retention and have to go through NY and T.O. to get my mail news and web.

I just don't understand the mindset of rogers suits, how in the F*$&%ng hell can they go with Teleglobe when even Teleglobe says that they won't have their fiber optic network completed before 2004. The should have went with UUNET who Guarantees 85ms latency or less for north america and if you go and look at their latency map for north america it's never higher than 55ms. UUNET already has two OC12 fiber optic lines going to/from Ottawa, Toronto and to NY for the Internet Gateway. UUNet already has PoP's (points of presence) in 61 locations in Canada, In Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal ect. It would not be difficult at all to get a broadband hub in those locations and have the abilitity to have dial up on top of that. But NOOOOOO Rogers had to go with a cheap unreliable unfinished netowrk with Teleglobe and pocket the rest.

Thank you Rogers you nitwits. We are back in the stoneage of broadband internet and service is now no better than dial up.