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I'm an @Home user in Plano, TX (northern 'burb of Dallas). I was one of the
first to get the service in this area when it was finally offered. In the
first 2 months, we had a LOT of problems as they got the infrastructure
tuned up. I called tech support almost daily to report almost daily
outages. Fortunately most of them were during the eveings but some during
market hours. One tech told me that they were replacing some 3Com routers
with Cisco and shortly after that, the problems cleared up and has been
quite reliable for the last couple of months. Performance is and was always
exellent when the system was up. And I did get a free month's service for
putting up with the headaches of being a pioneer in my neighboorhood.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Bob Jagow
Sent: Saturday, October 23, 1999 8:56 PM
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: ATHM
Jim,
We are getting @home here so I asked about it on the
qcharts onelist and got a preponderance of
negatives -- mostly that they are a long way from
getting their act together.
Was looking for something that wouldn't bog down
during market hours after all sorts of bad vibes from
using my local dialup providers and MSN [hadn't tried
Mindspring because they use the old Netcom pop] --
just now ran into Inreach and would recommend it
highly.
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jim
Greening
Sent: Saturday, October 23, 1999 12:31 PM
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: ATHM
uf,
Here's hoping they have learned and improved <G>.
So far no problems
here at all, but I haven't been on very long yet.
JimG
----- Original Message -----
From: Ullrich Fischer <uf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 7:33 PM
Subject: Re: ATHM
> They always tell me their server or router
related. -uf
>
> At 07:49 PM 10/21/99 -0700, you wrote:
> >uf,
> > So far, so good here, but that's on a very
limited sample of about
> > one week. Jones cable just put in all new fiber
here about a year ago,
> > so that may help. Are the problems there cable or
server related or do
> > you know?
> >
> >JimG
> >>----- Original Message -----
> >>From: <mailto:uf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>Ullrich
Fischer
> >>To:
<mailto:metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxx
m
> >>Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 3:07 PM
> >>Subject: Re: ATHM
> >>
> >>Another data point for you, Jim: I've had @home
cable modem service
from
> >>Rogers Cable in Canada for the past month and a
half. The service has
> >>gone down on average 1.5 times per week for an
average of 10 minutes at
a
> >>time. Today, it was down for about 1/2 hour
during trading hours. I
> >>had one short position in MO open at the time,
fortunately, it kept
going
> >>down until the service came back up. When I
called @HOME tech support,
> >>they had a canned message saying they know they
have problems with the
> >>server for my area but don't know when it will be
fixed.
> >>
> >>When the service is up, it is great, but
reliability needs a bit more
> >>work. If I had a choice between DSL and Cable
modem in my area, I think
> >>I would go for DSL.
> >>
> >>-uf
> >>
> >>At 09:09 PM 10/20/99 -0700, you wrote:
> >>> ALL,
> >>>
> >>> I think today gave me a good clue to the
question of is the
> >>> correction over or are we starting on a bear
market. Both the NASD
and
> >>> the NDX made a strong bounce off the bottom of
their Intermediate Term
> >>> Up Trend Channels. Also while all the other
indices I watch remain in
> >>> Short Term Down Trend Channels they all also
made strong up moves. It
> >>> would be premature to say that we had a market
correction and it s
over
> >>> before the other indices break out of their down
trends, but I m going
> >>> to nibble based on today s strong hint. Since
the NASD and OEX are
the
> >>> ones in up trends, I limited my candidates to
the Internet and high
> >>> tech stocks. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
> >>> "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
> >>>
> >>> I finally narrowed my choice down to At
Home Corp (ATHM). The
> >>> story here is that I just switched to a cable
modem from ATHM and
Jones
> >>> Cable TV and I m greatly impressed with their
service. I download at
> >>> 100 times the speed of my old 56k modem and
upload at twice the
> >>> speed. That got me curious and when I looked
into ATHM in more
detail,
> >>> I found that they are adding customers at an
astonishing rate. Based
> >>> on my own excitement and pleasure with the fast
Internet access, I
> >>> really think this can be a big winner. I haven
t got time to go into
> >>> the chart tonight, but I have posted it. Just
click on the symbol
> >>> below to see the chart. You will see that it is
typical of my usual
picks.
> >>>
> >>> See Chart at
> >>>
<http://www.geocities.com/jimginva/>http://www.geociti
es.com/jimginva/
> >>>
> >>>JimG
> >>>
> >>>
>
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