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Yes. I don't really understand how we got cut off. No warning. No real explanation, just sorry we can't do business with you and something about bit torrent. We were using bit torrent. We were under the impression that bit torrent was legal. Even if it is not, surely the argument is with bit torrent not me? I need the net for university. Fortunately I am on summer holiday so I have a while to sort something else out. So, I tried aloha broadband and ABS. They are kona based and do not cover this area. I tried earth net. They are in India and I could get no sense out of them except that one of the services would provide me with access to emails and the like over my land line, but I would not be able to down load anything at all. That was only $10 a month but I can do that on my 'not-so-smart phone'. I couldn't work out what the high speed connection meant or if it was even an option. That is all there is in the yellow pages. My prayer is that the cable people will magically decide to extend their service to me. There is not much likely hood of this, so please send positive vibes my way.
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Our grand kids on 4 n D have dish.Dish has a new satellite higher off the horizon that has faster than cable internet.It costs $40.00 a month and a 2 year contract must be signed.
We are old folks in our mid 80s and where we reside in gloomwood - we have flex dot net .
$10.00 a month for dial up and seems to work just fine.Slow,like us .
Flex is solely dial up and is based locally in state in Honolulu.
Lucky we live Hawaii.
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We were under the impression that bit torrent was legal.
It's a "burlgar's tools" argument: bittorrent itself is legal technology, but it's often used for illegal purposes ("copyright infringement") so the assumption is that any bittorrent traffic is automatically illegal.
This assumption only applies to consumers, however; if your internet connection is expensive enough, you can do whatever you want.
The "cool kids" are using a VPN tunnel to a virtual private server located in a country which doesn't recognize "infringement" as a criminal activity, thereby keeping the "illegal" bittorrent traffic outside their provider network.
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I want to be a cool kid
how do I do that. How do I now get Internet at all?
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Mimosa can you find out precisely what company your grandkids are using?? I would be most grateful.
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We used the Verizon JetPack for a while. You can either buy the hardware (target, walmart, radioshack) for about $100 or rent it for a monthly fee. Then you can opt for a single week's worth of service, or a month at a time (I think $15 and $60) for limited bandwidth--5g/month? The cool thing is you can take it all over with you, and have your own wifi anywhere you go, including your greenhouse, your car, Kona, the mainland...
We tried signing up for a "package" deal with Dish, but it turns out they farm the internet out to WildBlue/excede, so we went with them directly. Excede's been pretty good, goes out in heavy rain but usually for only a few minutes. $60 gets you 10g of data per month. Since we don't stream video, that usually leaves us with a couple g to spare each month.
But when we got a new computer with Win8 on it, the stupid thing uploaded all our data and used up all our bandwidth in a single day, but Excede gave us a once-only pass and comped us 5g for the rest of the month.
Hawaiian Acres free wifi is only at the community center.
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quote:
Originally posted by Derrick Barnicoat
Truth be told, no internet on an island in the middle of the pacific will be as fast as high speed on the mainland just because even the cable comes through one main satellite dish. At least, I don't think they would run a 3,000 mile cable.
No, not truth. The global internet requires fiber cable. Oceanic has a fiber from the mainland to Hawaii island. Here is a map:
http://stopthecap.com/wp-content/uploads...blesub.jpg
Actually, there are several 3,000 mile long cables, from west and east. There is a lot of fatpipe to the islands, just not to many rural residential areas. Satellite can be high speed down, but it has lag, making it unusable for interactive applications. Oceanic basic is 20 mbps down and 1 mbps up, about 70 msec lag to the mainland.
*Japanese tourist on bus through Pahoa, "Is this still America?*
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Interesting I didn't think it was possible but I guess it is.
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Originally posted by birchl
Mimosa can you find out precisely what company your grandkids are using?? I would be most grateful.
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He said Dish, I think.
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Dish Internet - They are using the new service .
Only internet.
New satellite at 40 degree's above horizon.
Can bundle with TV or just internet.
Internet is $40.00 a month
OR
Bundle with TV is $ 60.00 a month.
When a 2 year contract is signed.
The grand kids chose the internet only contract at 4nD in HA and are VERY pleased with the service,no lag times and works well in the heaviest of rains.
We old folks are using flex at
www.flex.com
10$ a month on the land line for dial up.
Have had dial up via flex,over 2 years and never had any problems.
