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Road Runner Speed Increase - Aaron S - 05-31-2013
I spoke to my contact at Oceanic and he told me the standard tier for the entire Big island was upgraded from 10Mbps to 15Mbps today. You just need to reboot your cable modem for it to take effect.
RE: Road Runner Speed Increase - PaulW - 05-31-2013
Great!!
RE: Road Runner Speed Increase - pahoated - 06-01-2013
At least the drop outs have stopped. Speed is very relative, only as fast as the destination connection. I have basic cable and get 28mpbs down from Honolulu, ever since starting the service last year. From there, it really depends on the mainland server that the connection is made to. Using this:
http://www.speedtest.net
The default server is Honolulu, just slide the little green box to find mainland servers. There are a couple in LA and San Jose where I get 75ms ping and over 20mbps down. A lot of the others are around 10-15mbps. Watch the small bar graph in the center and it shows graphically how choppy the speed is, how it affects the feeling of smoothness.
"This island Hawaii on this island Earth"
RE: Road Runner Speed Increase - Aaron S - 06-01-2013
The overall performance has improved because Oceanic reallocated additional analog spectrum bandwidth to HSI and HDTV services. For example, Oceanic increased the amount of downstream and upstream channels from four to six and two to three. This increase will help reduce congestion between the nodes and the headend.
RE: Road Runner Speed Increase - Guest - 06-02-2013
There's high speed cable internet service in Puna??????
RE: Road Runner Speed Increase - pahoated - 06-04-2013
I love this map of the underwater cables, explains so much and raises more questions.
http://energy.hawaii.gov/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/CableHandoutGraphic.png
Punapeople are so paranoid of underwater cables and if you see the full map right now, it looks like spaghetti around some meatballs with just telcom and short submarine power cables. The map doesn't show the high speed fiber directly between China and the US going a few hundred miles south of South Point. Not much chance of a T happening but it would mean FIFO-like connections of 60mpbs. Everything is fine the way it is, that's why it's Ha-Ha-Ha-Hawaii!!!
"This island Hawaii on this island Earth"
RE: Road Runner Speed Increase - Mute - 06-06-2013
Hopefully they'll expand further in Leilani estates, dealing with slow internet is worse then no internet at all.
RE: Road Runner Speed Increase - PaulW - 06-06-2013
If the density is more than 25 houses per mile then you can demand it - that's the condition tied to their monopoly.
RE: Road Runner Speed Increase - kalakoa - 06-07-2013
Note that's "25 houses/mile" for the entire distance to their existing plant, not just the road where you want service.
Of course, as a monopoly, they may or may not install at their whim; good luck "forcing" them to do anything, unless you can convince NSA that people's internet activities are going unmonitored.
RE: Road Runner Speed Increase - Aaron S - 06-08-2013
I found out Oceanic Time Warner Cable also upgraded the grandfathered Turbo (15/1Mbps) subscribers to 20/2Mbps a few days after the standard tier was increased from 10Mbps to 15Mbps. The "grandfathered" customers will be paying 9.95 instead of 20.00 a month for the 20/2 speeds.