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New users get att.net instead of bellsouth.net?

As the registration note states, new registrations a/o last Mon will now be on the att.net domain.

The self installations that customers are doing will have this automatically populated when registering from the disk, it's not really affecting anything.

Have not heard of the modems "appending" bellsouth.net to anything, however some have the attreg uid in them that has caused some issues for customers when something blips during registration process. No firmware update is necessary at this time, it's still PPPoe regardless of the domain.

reply to Anon

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reply to Anon
chuck283728 , How have you been a member here for three years and have only one post?

Why did you post for your first time in my thread?

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reply to Canezoid

Re: New users get att.net instead of bellsouth.net?

Username and Password

Customer Information Protocol

Not in BellSouth mode (a)

Not in BellSouth mode (b)

Not in BellSouth mode (c)

Not in BellSouth mode (d)

  function validForm()
  {
      var szBSString = "@bellsouth.net";
      var theUserId = document.installBS.PPPCnId;
 
      if(document.installBS.PPPCnId.value == "")//look to see if the user id was entered 
      {
          alert("Please enter a User Id");
          return;
      }
      else
      {
          if( 0 == 1 )
          {
              if(document.installBS.PPPCnId.value.indexOf("@",0) ==-1)// looks to see if @ sign is in string
              {
                 document.installBS.PPPCnId.value += szBSString; // add the @BellSouth.net
              }
              document.installBS.action="installUpdateBS.htm";
          }
          else
          {
              if(theUserId.value.toLowerCase().indexOf(szBSString,0) !=-1)// looks to see if bellsouth.net sign is in string
              {
                  document.installBS.action="installUpdateBS.htm";
              }
              else // ID not be @bellsouth.net, must be wholesale user
              {
                  document.installBS.action="installProtocolBS.htm";
 

reply to Airwolf7
So do these "att.net" customers get "att.net" prices?
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Probably not.. why would AT&T SE rip off their customers like that? While we do pay more, we also get more to make up for it

reply to joako
You do understand that 'att.net' was originally used for AT&T Worldnet customers?

»www.usa.att.com/dsl/plans/index.jsp

Which are different from what at&t Yahoo! HSI customers ('sbcglobal.net') pay...

»www.att.com/gen/general?pid=6431

AT&T offers three different DSL services, depending upon whether you are in an area originally served by Bellsouth, SBC, or some other ILEC.
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

Yeah.. I had their dial up plan years ago.. tho, my former email address was @worldnet.att.net officially iirc.

Ex-GF has ATTW dial, and an 'att.net' email address. I have not been able to talk her into signing up for at&t Yahoo! HSI. There is a way for her to sign up and keep her ATTW email address.
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

reply to jhaygood86

BSFA Benefits:
- HomeNetworking Plus is free, free wireless gateway after rebate, or a free modem after rebate if you'd rather not have it
- Free single Static IP
- Free AT&T Security (which is not Norton... it sucks alot less than Norton)
- Download speeds are a bit faster thanks to MaxSync, and the fact that we're throttled at 6500 Kbps or so instead of syncing at 6.0 Mbps (and losing some speed due to overhead).

We do get more mailboxes and stuff, but that doesn't really affect me. We also get more local support

reply to joako

reply to Airwolf7
I can confirm that new users get att.net.

I canceled all of my AT&T services (business DSL, residential DSL, residential voice) except wireless last week, and had a new 3Mbit standalone line installed...the technician just left.

I registered my new account and got att.net for my user ID/e-mail...however, my static IP is still showing sip.lft.bellsouth.net.

Connection Information
DSL Up
Connection Up
User ID iCarl@att.net
IP Address xx.xxx.xxx.xxx
IP Gateway xx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Primary DNS 205.152.132.23
dns.msy.bellsouth.net
Secondary DNS 205.152.37.23
dns.asm.bellsouth.net
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reply to Airwolf7
What POP3 and SMTP servers should be used with the new att.net e-mail addresses in the old BS territory?

That's a good question. I just don't know.

I bet Carl up there might know because he just set up a new FastAccess DSL account that uses an att.net User ID and e-mail address.

Carl was just here a couple hours ago and when he comes back maybe he will see your reply and answer this question for us.

reply to Automate
Users with the att.net domain should use:

Incoming: fpostoffice.isp.att.net
Outgoing: fmailhost.isp.att.net

In theory, mail.bellsouth.net should still work for outgoing anywhere within the BellSouth network, though if you have it set up to use SMTP authentication, it may not like the att.net addresses. The mail.bellsouth.net server does seem to let all BellSouth IP addresses relay without having to authenticate.

I haven't tried to mess around with the mail functionality too much since I won't be using it... have my own domain name instead.