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"Your never going to find those kind of speeds (40 down 5 up) on 6th street in HPP or anywhere in Hawaii for that matter".
Actually, that is not true. Oceanic offers speeds of up to 50 Mb x 5 Mb if you can get their service you should be able to get that option. I will agree with you that it is not available on 6th in HPP. I only have their 20 x 2 service but above the 20 Mb they offer a 30 and a 50 and both with a 5 Mb up.
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Does Oceanic actually offer 50x5 anywhere on the Big Island?
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just ran a speed test on tw/oceanic basic cable ... 8.meg down - 1.01 meg up - thats using a wireless router as well
cant complain - the internet at decent speed replacing tv cable at my house.......
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Oceanic has to provide cable to any area that has a high enough density of housing. It can be a long hard battle so if fast internet is important to you (as it is for me) then you would be better off looking at areas where they already have cable.
People, take this into account when looking for a place to live in Puna! Hopefully Oceanic can provide a list of streets.
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quote:
Originally posted by kalakoa
Does Oceanic actually offer 50x5 anywhere on the Big Island?
If you are able to get Oceanic service at your address you should be able to get the 50 Mb service. I am pretty sure all of the hubsites have now been upgraded on the Big Island. I know I can get it in Leilani Estates if I wanted it.
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I was wondering if anyone has put an address on,
http://www.hibroadbandmap.org/speed-test...rved-area/ The interactive map doesn't have Aloha Broadband's areas, but it can be seen here
http://alohabroadband.com/coverage I was just wondering if the hibroadband people saw a demand in a certain area if some company might respond.
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The disclaimer on the "Broadband Map Project" site says it all:
Hawaii Broadband Map was only able to verify broadband service provider information at the census block level. Therefore, while a census block may be verified as having access to broadband services, it is possible that not every address within that census block can access broadband services.
In other words: if one house has broadband (currently defined as "128Kbit/sec or faster", which is mostly useless in today's streaming-video reality), the entire census block is considered to "have broadband".
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these are the kind of questions a good real estate agent would know - if the agent does not know where and what type / speed etc the lines run in a particular development
I'd expect a rebate for doing my own home work .... or move on.....
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I was on Oceanic TWC in Hilo and brought our account with us to HPP. Generally got 1.8-3 MB/sec then switched to Hawaiian Telcom DSL which is/was actually faster (and cheaper) than cable. I had been complaining to Oceanic about the slow speed but they didn't care, which is what prompted me to switch to DSL.
If you truly NEED high speed feel free to ask company reps. what is available but if you really want the truth ask them to put it in writing. I would recommend asking for a written guarantee before breaking any ground if you really want to know what is available.
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Neither broadband (cable) or DSL (telephone) will guarantee their speeds. They are burst rates. If you want GUARANTEED speeds then you need to go with fiber which you probably can't afford.
Over broadband you should be within 80% of the posted speeds. If you are not, then there is an issue. Over DSL I don't think they have any percentages as the further away from the DSLAM you are the slower your speeds become.
