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Ron,
Thanks for the info. I'm hoping they have their act together from the
start here. They just started offering the service with Jones Cable a few
weeks ago and so far absolutely no problems. It probably helps that Jones
put in all new fiber optics cable last year.
JimG
----- Original Message -----
From: Ron Dawes <ron@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 23, 1999 8:44 PM
Subject: RE: ATHM
> 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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