Charter: Going bankrupt in '09? [Archive] - aSpeed Racing [ Auburn / Atlanta ]

Grider

01-28-2009, 07:22 PM

http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20090128/NEWS/90128045
http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090121/BIZ/901210315/-1/BIZ

That would suck......Auburn has already had one cable internet provider go tits up in its past. Before Charter was Charter it was AT&T Broadband who was once TCI. TCI and AT&T contracted with a company called @Home to provide cable modems and bandwidth to their subscribers. AT&T is not the AT&T of today ... Bellsouth and AT&T were separate companies back then, so they did not overlap with one offering cable and one offering dsl.

Anyway, @Home went tits up in spectacular fashion taking their upstream broadband with them. For about 2 to 3 weeks the cable modems did nothing. This was also about the time that Charter bought the AT&T Broadband systems in Alabama so it was all kinds of fruit basket turnover...

In short, get DSL and DirectTV; your digital transition is going to be rougher than most.

phillyd

01-28-2009, 07:30 PM

http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20090128/NEWS/90128045
http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090121/BIZ/901210315/-1/BIZ

That would suck......Auburn has already had one cable internet provider go tits up in its past. Before Charter was Charter it was AT&T Broadband who was once TCI. TCI and AT&T contracted with a company called @Home to provide cable modems and bandwidth to their subscribers. AT&T is not the AT&T of today ... Bellsouth and AT&T were separate companies back then, so they did not overlap with one offering cable and one offering dsl.

Anyway, @Home went tits up in spectacular fashion taking their upstream broadband with them. For about 2 to 3 weeks the cable modems did nothing. This was also about the time that Charter bought the AT&T Broadband systems in Alabama so it was all kinds of fruit basket turnover...

In short, get DSL and DirectTV; your digital transition is going to be rougher than most.

I was trying to put off my move from Charter to DSL and Direct TV, but I guess I should get a move on it...

Thanks for the info!

AlmosN8kd

01-28-2009, 07:45 PM

Don't worry, Obama is Pres, a bailout for all is coming soon; I swear.

2Fast4Radar

01-28-2009, 08:47 PM

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Grider

01-28-2009, 08:53 PM

Really one thread without bullshit political interjections would be nice.

VR4Rob

01-28-2009, 09:33 PM

Wow that's crazy. I guess you really can't shit all over your customers all of the time and get away with it.

tig488

01-28-2009, 09:51 PM

i ditched charter cable interweb for centurytel DSL, but i still got charter cable:(

xamraci

01-29-2009, 01:54 AM

I guess this was expected...haha

they can blow my cock...they fucking suck...

Charter in Prattville sucks even harder than Charter in Auburn...fucking lame ass motherfuckers...

linuxman51

01-30-2009, 04:52 PM

charter sucks. knology sucks. nothing is good. :(

linuxman51

01-30-2009, 04:52 PM

oh and directtv is infested with the biggest slime balls of all of them.. if you think charter's bad, wait'll you get on with them.

Grider

01-30-2009, 05:42 PM

Same problem in the satelite world; all of the providers suck the cock.

It is a media provider problem in that there are basicly zero choices in the field. Telecom is the same way; everbody sucks.

k20z3 fg2

02-03-2009, 07:42 PM

charter is absolutely awful in all aspects. my cable goes to a "no signal" screen 1 out of every 3 times the tv comes on, and i always get the sweet times on their broadband where you have to click something 92 times for it to actually start loading...

Crankee

02-03-2009, 08:04 PM

I dont have to worry about charter at the new house, I will have to go to satellite. What would be the best internet provider for satellite.

AlmosN8kd

02-03-2009, 08:08 PM

What would be the best internet provider for satellite.

AK-47 to forehead. :dropit:

Crankee

02-03-2009, 10:42 PM

:confused:

1000 :D

Grider

02-03-2009, 11:56 PM

charter is absolutely awful in all aspects. my cable goes to a "no signal" screen 1 out of every 3 times the tv comes on, and i always get the sweet times on their broadband where you have to click something 92 times for it to actually start loading...

Changing to somebody else's DNS servers fixes a lot of that crap. :google: "fast free dns servers"

I dont have to worry about charter at the new house, I will have to go to satellite. What would be the best internet provider for satellite.

Lauren's mom has I think HughesNet. OMG THE LATENCY IS HORRIBLE. But it works fine for basic web browsing, some video watching, and email.

You won't be playing games over it unless its turn based.... like Battleship.

Crankee

02-04-2009, 07:51 AM

I was thinking At&T, and getting the bundle.

AadosX

02-25-2009, 01:16 AM

I didn't know AT&T had internet over satellite...

jsta240

02-25-2009, 01:33 AM

my mom just switched from charter to att did the bundle of the phone tv and internet. i dont know how it is yet because i have not been back to birmingham since. but they basically gave her a month and a half service, installed everything on 5 tvs and it is supposed to be cheaper than the charter was for the next 36 months