so you can all spam the living #$(* outta me

Looks like after June 30th my email addy will undergo a change, thanks to Comcast purchasing Att Broadband. So in the future, NOT YET THO, my email will change from [email hidden] to ...I [email hidden] hoooofreakin'ray. dave henrie

Posting your full email addy on usenet will guarantee spam. Never post it ..anywhere! "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Looks like after June 30th my email addy will undergo a change, thanksto > Comcast purchasing Att Broadband. > > So in the future, NOT YET THO, my email will change from [email hidden] > to ...I [email hidden] hoooofreakin'ray. > > dave henrie

Dave, The same goes here, my being on AT&T also. I'm pretty pleased with AT&T and hope the change to Comcast does not alter things. This will be my second change. I was initially on MediaOne and then when AT&T bought out MediaOne I had to go to AT&T. Funny thing about that whole exchange was that there were was a guy who was on AT&T all along who had the exact same email address as I had. I found this out accidentally and it took AT&T nearly a month to get things sorted out. Alanb "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Looks like after June 30th my email addy will undergo a change, thanksto > Comcast purchasing Att Broadband. > > So in the future, NOT YET THO, my email will change from [email hidden] > to ...I [email hidden] hoooofreakin'ray. > > dave henrie

Why the change from "henrie" to "think....henrie"? :>) "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Looks like after June 30th my email addy will undergo a change, thanksto > Comcast purchasing Att Broadband. > > So in the future, NOT YET THO, my email will change from [email hidden] > to ...I [email hidden] hoooofreakin'ray. > > dave henrie

I just moved a few months ago. I signed up with ATT (due to lack of options) and went thru hell trying to email set up. Their little setup cd won't work and all the server info the techs gave me wouldn't work either. After many call backs to tech support I finally get a tech that says "well your a new subscriber so you should be using @Comcast.net not attbi.com" DOH! Four hours wasted over something so frigging stupid. I really wish I could get Charter back. I never really had ATT to know how it compares, but I have to reset my modem almost daily and I have been dropped in the middle of two races, which is probably 1/3 of the online races I have run since moving. With Charter I only reset my modem three times in over two years. Not to mention their cable TV line up sucks. No Speed or ESPN2 without paying for the over priced digital package. If the phone lines weren't crap in my area I'd try DSL. MadDAWG

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> for the over priced digital package. If the phone lines weren't crap > in my area I'd try DSL. > > MadDAWG > > >

I don't reset my modem very often, but I do use winipcfg to release and renew all my ip #'s every morning. I too spent the early part of the last DTM HEAT league I was in getting disco'd at least once every race weekend.(untill I started getting aggressive with winipcfg thatis) Fortunately for me, Speed is on both digital and regular cable channels, I went Digi so I could also get ESPN2 and their nightly RPM Today show...which was cancelled about the same time I signed up. :( dave henrie

<cough> Let me give you a few brief tips on what you will need when Comcrap assimilates you: - Write down all their various help numbers somewhere and keep it by the computer. You will use them a lot. - Find out the MAC address of your computer or router or whatever connects directly to the cable modem and write it one the same sheet. You will be using that a lot too. - Make sure you can reach the power cord to your cable modem easily because every time you call the help desk the first and usually only thing that they will tell you to do is power cycle your modem and reboot your computer. They don't know how to do anything else. The even scarier thing is how often that actually fixes the problem. - Get an alternate web mail address from somewhere so that people have a way of reaching you when Comcrap's mail server goes down. - Search around and try and find some alternate DNS server addresses for when Comcrap's server goes down. - Find out the phone numbers for you local cable franchise authority, Better Business Bureau, and State Attorney General. Believe me, they will come in handy. - Get yourself a comfy phone by the computer and a nice comfy chair. You will be on the phone for hours at a time. I wish I was kidding but I'm not, that all comes from personal experience with them. "Alan Bernardo" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:OQNra.144133$[email hidden]... > > I'm pretty pleased with AT&T and > hope the change to Comcast does not alter things. >

God I hope your experience is limited to your area, though I sympathize with what you've had to go through. I think all areas are different, and that problems are more area related than they are company related. The same company can have a nice connection in one area of the country and a terrible one in another. AT&T-- though I had some initial problems with low bandwidth (for which I received a year's credit)-- has been excellent. I'm on months at a time with out one problem. After this June 30th switch, I will be worried. Hopefully things will turn out okay. Thanks, Alanb "Haqsau" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:b8pn7j$bvg48$[email hidden]... > <cough> Let me give you a few brief tips on what you will need whenComcrap

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> assimilates you: > > - Write down all their various help numbers somewhere and keep it by the > computer. You will use them a lot. > - Find out the MAC address of your computer or router or whatever connects > directly to the cable modem and write it one the same sheet. You will be > using that a lot too. > - Make sure you can reach the power cord to your cable modem easily

because > every time you call the help desk the first and usually only thing thatthey > will tell you to do is power cycle your modem and reboot your computer. > They don't know how to do anything else. The even scarier thing is how > often that actually fixes the problem. > - Get an alternate web mail address from somewhere so that people have away > of reaching you when Comcrap's mail server goes down. > - Search around and try and find some alternate DNS server addresses for > when Comcrap's server goes down. > - Find out the phone numbers for you local cable franchise authority,Better > Business Bureau, and State Attorney General. Believe me, they will comein

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> handy. > - Get yourself a comfy phone by the computer and a nice comfy chair. You > will be on the phone for hours at a time. > > I wish I was kidding but I'm not, that all comes from personal experience > with them. > > > "Alan Bernardo" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:OQNra.144133$[email hidden]... > > > > I'm pretty pleased with AT&T and > > hope the change to Comcast does not alter things. > > > >

"Haqsau" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:b8pn7j$bvg48$[email hidden]:

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><cough> Let me give you a few brief tips on what you will need when >Comcrap > assimilates you: > > - Make sure you can reach the power cord to your cable modem easily > because every time you call the help desk the first and usually only > thing that they will tell you to do is power cycle your modem and > reboot your computer. They don't know how to do anything else. The > even scarier thing is how often that actually fixes the problem.

My experience hasn't been quite as bad as yours, but I can echo a lot of your comments, particularly the above. Man, I didn't know how good I had it back in the days of Mediaone.