08-14-2014, 02:00 PM
Aloha,
We have Telcom DSL in the back part of Nanawale. Hubby and I both work from our home office on the isle since 2009.
In order to get it though I had to wait for a port to open which involved calling Telcom every single day for about 6 months straight asking them if a port had opened. I kept record of whom I talked to on each call and by the end when a port finally opened I pretty much knew all the workers by name and they knew me.
Kind of funny – they would say you know you really don’t have to call every day and I would say yes I do cause I REALLY need to have internet in order to have any income.
Eventually a port opened up and we are so glad that it did. Seems to be pretty reliable and a steady speed during the day like clockwork at 8:00 PM bam our speed goes down to hardly nothing and I mean slower than dial up. Telcom says no reason for it to do that but its every single night for the last 4 years so seems like too much of a coincidence. So reliable when it slows down I could set a clock to it.
It’s OK though as long as I have it for work during the day I can live with the slow speeds at night.
Our other house in Hawaiian shores Rec again Telcom no ports but I did not have a problem getting Oceanic Time warner service although they are a bit more expensive than Telcom.
Depends on what you are doing as far as work on the internet – we need to have high speed so satellite would not work for us or wireless as it would not be reliable enough. Dial up forget it....
We have Telcom DSL in the back part of Nanawale. Hubby and I both work from our home office on the isle since 2009.
In order to get it though I had to wait for a port to open which involved calling Telcom every single day for about 6 months straight asking them if a port had opened. I kept record of whom I talked to on each call and by the end when a port finally opened I pretty much knew all the workers by name and they knew me.
Kind of funny – they would say you know you really don’t have to call every day and I would say yes I do cause I REALLY need to have internet in order to have any income.
Eventually a port opened up and we are so glad that it did. Seems to be pretty reliable and a steady speed during the day like clockwork at 8:00 PM bam our speed goes down to hardly nothing and I mean slower than dial up. Telcom says no reason for it to do that but its every single night for the last 4 years so seems like too much of a coincidence. So reliable when it slows down I could set a clock to it.
It’s OK though as long as I have it for work during the day I can live with the slow speeds at night.
Our other house in Hawaiian shores Rec again Telcom no ports but I did not have a problem getting Oceanic Time warner service although they are a bit more expensive than Telcom.
Depends on what you are doing as far as work on the internet – we need to have high speed so satellite would not work for us or wireless as it would not be reliable enough. Dial up forget it....