[svlug] @Home

[S. Fouzi Husaini]

I went to an @Home demo this weekend in Hayward at a TCI office. From what I
saw (of course all the PC's in the demo room were running win95) it seemed
interesting but a bit pricy . They are charging $150 bucks for installation 
(this seemed way too much) which includes a 3com 10baseT ethernet card, an 
@Home modem (I have no clue why they call it a modem, because it is NOT) and 
some other "setup" fees. Then you pay a monthly fee of $39.95. I like the 
idea of not having to mess around with writing fault monitors for my dial in 
scripts and 10baseT is faster than 56k. However their proxy/firewall system 
makes connecting back into a machine on the @Home intranet a bit of a challenge.
What I did find was cool was when I had exhausted the technical resources of
the Compac consultant they had on hand at the demo and they refered me to a
tech-support line the guy I got to talk with was a LINUX user! I thought that
was pretty cool.

well, anyway, the @Home folks said that they have been servicing Fremont for 2
years now. are there any SVLUG Fremontians out there using this service? What
about anyone else? 

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- fouzi
www.csc.calpoly.edu/~fouzi

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