Fibwr optical

[jrw]

Heard rumor Eden Rock was getting fiber optical from Hawaii Telcom does anyone know for sure.

jrw

[loffelkopffl]

yes they are stringing wire now

[EightFingers]

Wish it was here in HPP, it would at least give us another option to cable.

[kalakoa]

Fiber connections aren't really available to the general public at a reasonable price; they're generally used by Telcom for infrastructure (remote DSL cabinets, cell towers, etc).

[MarkP]

Right now here in Eden Roc we have no form of internet beyond cell, wireless, or satellite. It's hard to believe that we are getting something that HPP doesn't yet have. But HPP does have cable doesn't it so Eden Roc is just being brought up to par.

[PaulW]

Only parts of HPP have cable, be careful where you buy!

[VancouverIslander]

Please be a true rumour!

Me ka ha`aha`a,
Mike

[jrw]

Friend stop and talk to Hawaii telecom crew they said in about 4 or 5 months it should be up and running . They told him price well be what you see on tv adds that real good news if that is true I will be saving a lot of $

jrw

[kalakoa]

If it's "priced like on TV" then it's definitely a fiber uplink to a remote DSLAM.

Look for a big ("fridge-sized") white cabinet which will appear wherever the existing copper plant is thickest. It will have a HELCO meter.

Telcom is using a "conservative deploy", all new connections are at a minimum speed (3Mbit), after it's installed you call in to find out how much upgrade they can give you (they can run end-to-end tests against the DSL router to measure line quality).

If you don't already have analog service, get that installed ASAP, or your "location" doesn't exist for DSL. Note that Telcom does NOT require permits, phone service falls under NEC 70, and all Telcom craftspersons are considered "qualified" under the terms of the franchise agreement. All they need is a tall enough pole (or pipe attached to a building) close enough to their line (within 100'), really good grounding (two rods, or equivalent), and a bit of electricity to run the DSL router.

Order early, they have a tendency to underprovision the DSLAM -- the cabinet usually has capacity for about 500 lines, but they only populate a few dozen ports, then claim "out of ports" instead of simply installing more linecards. (Some irony, here: the fiber and cabinet are the "hard part", adding more ports is cheap and easy by comparison.)

[ericlp]

Well, Fern Forest is right up the street, I hear they are next. Time will tell! Exciting news.