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At 01:43 PM 12/2/2001 -0500, Michael Leone wrote:
On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 12:55, Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> I use @home . . . at home. Since I have POP service through my office,
and
> don't use the @home POP for eMail, and my browser does not start with the
> Comcast home page, will I still have a connection? Will I lose anything?
If @Home declares bankruptcy, they turn off their servers/routers, so
you would have no connection at all. Unless Comcast can get somebody
else to agree to do it for them, and have this new ISP do the servicing
of your account. And this new ISP would have to work with @Home, to
change the routing of your connection from @Home's network/routers to
the new ISP's.
The way it seems to work is that I connect through a proxy server in Willow
Grove. Knowing that Comcast has one of its main local facilities in Willow
Grove, I always assumed that this proxy server was the property of
Comcast. Even if it is, I guess the question is what is upstream from the
proxy server and who controls that, and so on.
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