Insight@Home Full............

[Zporttech]

Greetings and Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!!

A friend of mine just informed me that he tried to sign up for cablemodem service in our area (Insight@Home in southern Indiana area).

He was told they are no longer adding customers because they are at capacity for their equipment and adding more would slow the system down to much for current customers.

How about that?????



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Steve
www.zport.com

[Kip Patterson]

Verry interesting.

What cable modem technology is currently in use in the area? In Columbus, Time Warner/Roadrunner began with the proprietary Motorola system, and is now up to more than 30,000 users. Very recently they staarted using DOCSIS, with Cisco routers and Motorola (was General Instruments) modems. These folks have the funds to have two CMTS is each headend. There's about 25 Motorola CMTS currently installed, and my estimate is that they have capital costs in the Motorola system of about $260 per customer. They've been around for three years, and about any estimate you make says they can't have made much money.

DOCSIS is being used for new installs and the occasional problem.

It sure seems like everybody in the business has to be taking a hard look at costs. This is the first I've seen anyone declining installs as a way of holding down on capital expenditures, but it makes sense.

Try ordering a DSL line. The economics are much worse, and we've all seen the reports about ISP failures. I'd guess that after the first of the year availability is going to be a big problem. The sources of capital funds have just about dried up.

[Zporttech]

Kip,

My first choice was DSL. However Ameritech is about 20 years behind everyone else. They won`t even give you a projected date!

As far as Insight goes, I don`t have any complaints. It doesn`t go down very much and the speeds are decent.

Besides if they won`t add anyone giving one reason it would effect the rest, I can`t complain about that either.

As far as their equipment, I have no idea what their setup or equipment is. They have only been in the cablemodem service for a short time.



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Steve
www.zport.com

[Kip Patterson]

Well, that blows my idea of trying to stretch obsolete equipment.

Thanks,

[psyche777]

in certain areas the cable industry is refusing to accept new subs due to the fact that they have realized they can't handle any more subscribers and keep the current subscribers at a decent level of connection -- it's better than signing him up and having him have major problems -- they're working on it but hey that's as close to honesty that there is a problem as most of us are going to hear at this point

[Aaron]

Strange, my friend just signed up last week and he got hooked up. I talked to a tech that said they were supposed to be updating their equipment at the end of November. Of course half of those people don't know what the hell they're talknig about, so who knows.

[indy]

at least you have the service up and running in southern ind Here in Franklin (30 miles s of indy) we are still stuck on dial up

Franklin is about the dividing line between comast and insight cable

this is whatI found out insight in my area
is atleast 1 yr behind in the roll out or upgrade to digital cable and @ home

time table is now spring 2000
they are tying 3 ? other systems ?
together

they are out of fiber optic cable ? ok


if i stilled lived in indy (comcast)
i would have @ home or dsl both available there but not here yet

so i just wait and wait ect but am learning what to exepct

try this www site for @ home insight availably
http://www.insight-com.com/

check the high internet acess tab
an then availabilty

I thoght about satalite but decided not to
i can get isdn but not much improvment over my 56.6 normally connects at 45000

[Zporttech]

Indy,

Man you do have it bad!!! So I guess DSL out of question also?

The Insight page does not say anything about the service not available in our area.

Did hear last night that DSL is going to be available in the Corydon area (about 30 miles to the west), but that is not Ameritech. I believe it is run by Verizon (old GTE).

Glad I got signed up when I did. Hope you have some good luck soon!



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Steve
www.zport.com

[Zporttech]

Aaron,

Where is your friend located? Our service comes out of Jeffersonville Indiana.

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Steve
www.zport.com

[Aaron]

He lives right across the street from me in Bloomington.

[indy]

I keep you all updated

[indy]

if you dont see your area listed try sending them a email (goes to the blooming office
sales rep a lady i think ) to get a response

[psyche777]

sounds almost like the new satellite that choke aol can't believe i said those three letters - lol -- will be there before dsl -- according to a tech friend at the three letter word place -- the new satellite will kick but on speed using a dual dial-up system -- they're testing it now -- the speeds he quoted me were faster than @home on it's best day for the download - upload of course was limited to your modem --