Earthlink is in a bit of a bind. The company lost $80 million on Muni-Fi last year, their investments in broadband over powerline have gone nowhere, the government says they can't share access to next-generation broadband networks, and their effort to run an MVNO (Helio) flamed out spectacularly. What's left? The company is still allowed to offer access via Time Warner Cable's cable broadband network as a condition of the $109 billion Time Warner AOL merger, and for the first time in a while the troubled company expanded those offerings throughout California. From the OC Register:Time Warner Cable recently inherited the Los Angeles networks after Adelphia imploded. Unfortunately for Earthlink, it looks like the deal only allows them to offer a max speed of 6Mbps over the network ($29.95 for the first six months and $41.95 per month after). While it probably won't save them, it's an interesting expansion at a time when most people were expecting Earthlink to die off. The company had previously stated that their primary survival tactic was going to involve, believe it or not, refocusing on dial-up.