| The transition to "Comcast High-speed Internet" has occurred and Comcast is really learning on the job. I can picture the yokels constantly on the phone with Microserfs saying, "Now, how do we do this again?" So far, no Comcast email (they paid Excite@home 160 million to keep its email in place till the end of Feb.) Getting onto the internet is as slow as dial-up, waiting for "proxy settings" to be detected. Once you're on the net, it's only a partial Net, which I find weird. I can get to Slate (Microsoft-owned) but entering the URL for Salon (frequent MS critic) yields a "file not found." Real Player (Microsoft competitor) files don't play. But I also can't access Artforum, University of Houston, Breakbeat Science, and a number of other pages I'd bookmarked. How can you have a partial net? Once you're on the net, you're on the net, right? This sucks.
Also, there have been two AP stories about the transition, and in both of them Comcast proudly claims that they're offering more services than Excite@home (neglecting to mention that customers have to change email and lose their website URLs) and boasts that their rates didn't go up in December because of the transition. Right--they went up five dollars in NOVEMBER. I don't know which is worse, their false spin or the journalists who take it at face value.
"... I also can't access Artforum, University of Houston, Breakbeat Science, and a number of other pages I'd bookmarked. How can you have a partial net? Once you're on the net, you're on the net, right? This sucks."
Sounds like AOL.
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Also, there have been two AP stories about the transition, and in both of them Comcast proudly claims that they're offering more services than Excite@home (neglecting to mention that customers have to change email and lose their website URLs) and boasts that their rates didn't go up in December because of the transition. Right--they went up five dollars in NOVEMBER. I don't know which is worse, their false spin or the journalists who take it at face value.
- tom moody 1-01-2002 8:08 pm
"... I also can't access Artforum, University of Houston, Breakbeat Science, and a number of other pages I'd bookmarked. How can you have a partial net? Once you're on the net, you're on the net, right? This sucks."
Sounds like AOL.
- steve 1-02-2002 1:18 am [add a comment]