If @Homo does go bankrupt, and AT&T doesn't gobble them up... that makes things interesting. I can't really suggest what would happen to all of @Home's customers nationwide... but I would suspect that with the cable modem infrastructure in place here in Cedar Rapids, more likely than not, Mediacom (our cable company now, AT&T left town) would forge a deal with some high-speed Internet Service Provider that can provide the bigass pipe necessarily to keep pumping out cable Internet goodness. Can you say Mediacom High-speed Cable Internet powered by Earthlink Network? I knew you could!

Or wouldn't it be weird if Mediacom hooks up with McLeod to provide cable modem access? Hrmmm... now that would be interesting.
At any rate, it's too bad AT&T isn't still around here in town. AT&T bought @Home's Internet backbone from @Home a few months ago, so they would've been able to just rename the service to whatever and keep on going.

But you really don't need to worry about your cable modem going anywhere. It cost many millions of dollars to build the cable Internet infrastructure here in CR (upgrading the cable lines to support two-way communications... the millions of dollars of equipment at Mediacom HQ... etc. etc) there's no way Mediacom will allow those lines to sit idle and be not used. If @Home goes away, Mediacom will forge a deal with someone else to keep the webpages coming.