IP: Bay Area reconnected to @Home

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 06:40:42 -0800 (PST)
> From: "Joseph C. Pistritto" <jcp@dmwhe.com>
> X-Sender: jcp@ns1.jcphome.com
> To: dave@farber.net
> Subject: Bay Area reconnected to @Home
>
> A number of people I know and my house in Belmont are now connected to
> network 12, AT&T Broadband.  They were running through connections quite
> quickly Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning.  The upgrade for me was only
> making my gateway acquire a new DHCP address from the network after
> chaning the domain name segment that as "home.com" to "attbi.com.  My
> transition happened Tuesday morning, i know other people who were done
> Monday evening and Tuesday afternoon.  No word on other AT&T systems like
> Hartford, CT yet.
>
> I'm not sure that Excite@Home can be considered *the* most poorly managed
> company in history, but I'm certainly glad not to be a customer anymore,
> and their late-game antics certainly point in that direction.
>
> Appropriately, the creditors who shafted customers to try to pressure AT&T
> will get *nothing* for their efforts since AT&T dropped the bid.
>
> There are 4 really nice multi-story buildings with a view of Highway 101
> that are available for rent in March however.  Complete with a fireman's
> pole between floors in one of them...
>
> Best regards,
>    -jcp-

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