@HOME, which provides all of the network infrastructure for COX in New England (but not the cable itself) much of AT&T Broadband (and the companies they bought out) in New England filed for bankruptcy protection in Septermber and have received permission to pull the plug on most/all services as of tonight. It might happen tonight, or it may be in a few days.
You may still have some services but will probably loose e-mail and DNS and 50/50 you'll lose everything all together (with the possible exception of bare IP initially ) unless your cable provider has a backup plan (all of COX does not
)... What service may or may not be still available is all based on less than accurate info from what I've been able to pull off a few different sites, maily DSLReports...
If you are lucky enough only to lose e-mail, call me this weekend (not tonight) on my cell phone 617-512-2541 and I'll create an e-mail address for you @striped-bass.com so you can access e-mail via Outlook Express or via WebMAIL... We'll see how things work out in the next 24 hours and if some things work and some things don't, I'll put up all of the steps to get your e-mail & DNS through my server... If basic IP goes down the tubes, we're S.O.L...
My e-mail server has nothing to do with COX or @HOME nor does anything that this site uses (anymore, snicker, snicker, snicker)
Here is COX's statement from yesterday:
http://www.cox.com/info/
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