Aloha Broadband?

[Ryan.]

Thanks for the update. So glad those of us farther out now have a decent option for internet.

[tndhansen]

We live in Hawaiian acres and use MIFI from Verizon. Very fast. We had four latops hooked up, streaming,uploading etc. Cost $35/mo. FYI.

T~N~D Hawaiian Acres

[Ryan.]

Thanks for the tip (re: Verizon). I understand it's a great device, it's just that the bandwidth restrictions are too tight for some of us (250MB or 5GB a month).

[Ed Smay]

Can anyone tell me the system requirements or connection set ups?

I have an Air Card from sprint that connects into a wireless router
and we can connect 2 wireless laptops through that. We have no local
telephone service here on the property so we are limited to wireless only.

Mahalo

Ed


"From knowledge comes understanding"

[knieft]

Ed,

With Aloha Broadband you'll end up with a "live" ethernet cable that you plug into your wireless router. That connection can be shared by as many devices as your router allows. There is no two computer connection limit from Aloha Broadband's end.

Is your router specific to the sprint aircard? If so, it is probably the router imposing the limit. In that case, you would need a new router if you switched.

If you were asking about the Verizon MiFi, I can't answer...

Cheers,
Kirt

[Ed Smay]

We are not limited to only 2 connections because it is a wireless router that the air card plugs into. What I wanted to know about
Aloha is how you connect your router to the Aloha network. It doesn't sound as if you need land line or something like that to set it up.

"From knowledge comes understanding"

[peteadams]

Had not tried the Speakeasy speed test for our Verizon MiFi so FYI:

Download Speed: 645 kbps (80.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 463 kbps (57.9 KB/sec transfer rate)

The Verizon internet connection stalls a lot for us and obviously the d/l speed leaves something to be desired. We're guessing that the Verizon carrying capacity through the cell towers is not great. A lot of stalling seems to happen around 8AM when businesses open and mid afternoon when school lets out.

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[robguz]

It seems their service is improving if my experience is any indication. Sent an info request this morning and had a call within a couple hours. Could get an installation appt in 11 days. Friend in Puna Palisades has it and tested at 2.4 up, .45 down, which is faster than I get with DSL 90% of the time, and about 10X faster than I get in the evenings. Bye Bye HawaiianTel! Will report back once I get it installed.

[knieft]

Update:

We are still _very_ happy with our connection. A great value for the price, both the $100 installation and the $50/month fee. Our connection speeds remain as stated previously.

One glitch has been that the Apple TV device can not log in to the network time server (port 123) thus we can not sign into our iTunes account. This prevents authentication for home sharing, Netflix, youTube, and being able to purchase rentals from iTunes. Strangely we can still stream movie trailers. Not much left except AirPlay from iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad--which is very cool though. I have yet to check if such services will work on an internet-ready BluRay DVD player and/or internet-ready HD TV. If there are problems there, this could be more serious, but I suspect there won't be problems from that end since they are Windows/Linux based.

Apple tech support has been wonderful in troubleshooting (spent nearly two hours on a Sunday walking me thru many port connection website tests to no avail). Seems port 123 can send out from the outside, but can't receive from a client using Aloha Broadband.

I brought the unit to a friend's home with DSL and there were no problems connecting.

Aloha Broadband claims all ports except the infamous spam port are not blocked and I totally believe them. Yet something somewhere in the exchange/translation/connection is preventing the Apple TV links.

Obviously I am interested in hearing from anyone else with this problem. Probably not many people using Apple TV yet, and fewer so using it with Aloha Broadband, but I'd love to know if anyone has similar problems, and solutions...

A minor glitch in, what has been for us, a wonderful service!

Cheers,
Kirt

[808blogger]

have you put the apple tv directly onto the ethernet aloha broadband is providing?
put it directly online and that way you can eliminate the router.
it is possible that your router is running some kind of NTP alg and getting in the way of network time.