Jacob
join:2000-11-28
San Jose, CA | Dead yet ?!?!?! Flashcom has said that they would cut off the circuits a while back. I have paid for 2 months of speakeasy's expensive fees, for what? The same exact speeds (good).
Is your line dead yet? Here in the Bay Area, they aren't dead yet. My old mail account still works, too. This pisses me off, since I have been paying, when I could have still been on flashcom all of this time. 
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Flashcom is slowly dying. There are (or at least were until a day or so ago) active Northpoint customers on Flashcom lines in the NY/NJ area. Additionally, to my knowledge, all the router equipment is still present where ever it was when Flashcom closed their doors. I don't believe that they really care anyway.
In the end, the controlling corporate creditor was Covad. For this reason, most of the Covad lines were kept active until about the first of May. Covad had great difficulty getting people to move to the safety net and as a result continued to extend the deadline.
The mail is being run by Critical Path as it always was. My guess is that Covad continues to pay this bill in order to continue sending informational emails out to the customers who remain un-transferred. Kill the flashcom.net domain at CP and they lose the contact to the customer. Critical Path's email works independently from the Flashcom network as you have likely figured out.
As to metro area shutdowns, The Flashcom connections in cities where access was provided by Level3 are down. These cities include. Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, Philly, Chicago, Detroit, and...One more...oh yea...Seattle.
Areas that were served by Exodus: Southern CA (LA/OC), Washington DC, NY/NJ and Boston are still largly active. Although I can still reach the routers in the LA/Orange County area, I believe all customer circuits have been terminated.
Areas served by ATT which is the majority of 2nd and 3rd tier markets are largely still active. This would include: Sacramento and some Bay Area circuits, Portland, San Antonio, Miami, Orlando, Tampa Bay, Baltimore, some New Jersey, Milwaukee, Denver, San Diego, Kansas City, St. Louis, Indianapolis, and a few more which don't spring to mind at the moment.
I don't know anything about Abovenet which held the majority of customers in Northern California. My guess is that its a coin toss.
Outside of New York / Jersey, all Northpoint circuits have been dissabled. All rhythms circuits were turned off some time ago, and Covad may still be attempting to recover some of its cash from customers who never cut over.
So...to summarize:
Mail will continue to work until Critical Path turns it off
Lines will continue to work... my guess is until the asset sale at which time the new owners will go and claim their prize from the poor sod that's been watching it all this time.
Just my incredibly insightful GUESS  wink wink
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