Comcast: AT&T switch steady so far
Posted by NTUsEr on 02 July 2003 - 11:28 · 12 comments & 1650 views
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#1 Posted by me101 on 02 Jul 2003 - 14:28
- Just back from a long deserved holiday back to Northern Ireland, and got a few emails from Comcast regarding downloading the wizard to ease the transition...
Looked at the alternative instructions and in like two minutes had my email and my usenet services converted over... so far so good...
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#2 Posted by JasonC1986 on 02 Jul 2003 - 15:31
- everything's been working fine with my home computers
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#3 Posted by ripgut on 02 Jul 2003 - 16:01
- I LOVE HAVING COMCAST CABLE I SWITCHED FROM SBC YAHOO DSL BECAUSE THEY SIMPLY COULDNT OFF MORE BANDWIDTH THAN A CRAPPY 384/128 AND NOW THEY STILL SEND ME OFFERS IN THE MAIL OFFERING THE SAME SPEEDS SAYING WE WANT YOU BACK MY PINGS NOW IN URBAN TERROR ARE IN THE 30'S WHERE IN SBC DSL THEY LIKE IN THE 100'S SO KISS ASS SBC
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#3.1 Posted by corrosive23 on 02 Jul 2003 - 17:14
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maybe comcast can fix your broken capslock key.
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#4 Posted by JaggedFlame on 02 Jul 2003 - 16:48
- E-mail switch worked fine here.
I wonder if our network IPs will change, too. So far, my domain is still attbi.com. Will it change to comcast.net anytime soon?
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#5 Posted by JiGGax717 on 02 Jul 2003 - 18:19
- I don't think it's going that smooth. My e-mail client looked like it was synchronizing, but it is not receiving anything from the server. And I am expecting several important business e-mails today!
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#6 Posted by Yvo on 02 Jul 2003 - 20:08
- Email servers are very slow compared to those of Attbi's. Also these don't seem to handle multiple connections for one email account well. Their transition wizard doesn't support Outlook XP/2002, so anyone that bought (I'm talking about people that don't know squat about pcs ) a new PC in the last year and half is out of luck.
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#7 Posted by blackice912 on 03 Jul 2003 - 04:05
- Yes, these new e-mail servers are deathly slow compared to attbi. I think they should take attbi's equipment + lines and use 'em.
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#8 Posted by ChibiShin on 03 Jul 2003 - 15:43
- lol...I love how they say it's going so smoothly, it's not going so great for US who have to deal with the damned idiots calling in....it's like a constant barrage of the dumbest questions ever. Try this one, "Ever since the transition, my floppy drive isn't reading floppies, and when I called Dell they said it was your fault. I want you to fix it!"....oh yeah, you read correctly. His floppy drive was not working. It took all my strength to keep from laughing and telling this wank to throw his cpu out the window because he is too dumb to be using it. Not that everyone is like this, but it's just been an increasingly irritating week. I look forward to it ending soon.
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#9 Posted by oriveradel on 03 Jul 2003 - 21:27
- Hello, as far as I can tell the transition it been a success, only those people who have a hard time understanding that Comcast does NOT support Microsott Outlook and that the wizard was only to make changes on Outlook express period. I can believe that people don't know how change 3 things on their settins email@comcast.net, (POP3) mail.comcast.net, (smtp) smtp.comcast.net...
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#10 Posted by ChibiShin on 04 Jul 2003 - 05:52
- Welp, it finally ended! Sorta...No longer in queue with back to back calls. And yeah, compared to the @home debacle (which I was also there for), this is a smashing success. Of course the Hindenburg was a success compared to that hah.
Subscribers affected by the delays were those who had a secure socket layer (SSL) configuration to authenticate their e-mail, the cable Internet giant said Tuesday. Comcast did not open its e-mail servers to SSL-configured e-mail users until 9 a.m. "The last piece of that transition was to set configurations to allow IP (Internet Protocol) addresses using SSL to get into our mail servers," said Mitch Bowling, vice president of operations for Comcast's high-speed Internet group.
A Comcast representative said the top issue so far has been customers calling in to reset passwords for the Comcast.net Web site and for the transition software. The representative declined to say how many of its total subscribers have successfully changed to Comcast.net. The change in customers' e-mail domains from attbi.com to Comcast.net began Monday as part of the final phase in Comcast's $72 billion acquisition of AT&T Broadband.
Comcast offered software to subscribers using Microsoft's Outlook e-mail to automatically change settings. Customers who don't use Outlook or the Macintosh operating system were given instructions to manually change internal settings.
"Europe is under-exposed to the PC market and is therefore not benefitting to the same degree from the seasonal demand improvements," Woolf said. "If a higher exposure to the telecoms market has led Europe to underperform in May, then this increases the likelihood that STMicroelectronics could miss its second quarter revenue target."
Analysts polled by Thomson Financial expect STMicroelectronics to report revenue of $1.7 billion for the three months ended June 30. Some of the weakness in the European market could be offset in coming months by the region's strength in the automotive and industrial markets.
The entire chip market witnessed an unexpected upswing in May with the Semiconductor Industry Association reporting that its three-month moving average figures showed sales improved as the effects of SARS on the sector began to wane.
Actual May chip sales rose even more strongly as unit shipment surged at a double-digit rate. Worldwide sales increased to $12 billion, up 11% from $10.7 billion in the year-ago month. Sales increased from $41.2 billion in April.
"The revenue increased chiefly because of strong shipment of 12% month-over-month and 54% year-over-year," said Jay Kim, an analyst at Goodmorning Shinhan Securites, Tokyo, in a report. "Although the shipment growth of 54% year-over-year is lower than the previous months' 73% in March and 69% in April, strong pricing in recent weeks bodes well for the global DRAM outlook."
On a regional basis, sales in the Americas declined 7%, to $2.47 billion from $2.65 billion in May 2002, continuing a trend that has seen the region lose market share to Asia-Pacific, which grew 12%, to $4.65 billion from $4.16 billion. Japan recorded the strongest year-over-year sales increase in May, rising 26% to $2.93 billion from $2.33 billion in the year-ago month.