01-03-2007, 02:46 AM
Hey Wonderkine - nice to see you here!
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Another Broadband question for HPP
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01-06-2007, 08:33 AM
quote: Hawaiian Tel. I know someone else on 6th who has it too. When I called to order it they said they couldn't promise it would work until they tried. But sure enough, works great. I use to have starband back on the mainland and it was soooooo slow. Of course if that's all you can get it's better than dialup, but not very much better. Aloha!
08-10-2007, 03:14 PM
Okay. So lower HPP. Way low. Waves Crashing Low. Would like internet and TV. Was informed that Dish Network might be available and that Oceanic Time Warner Cable might be available. Dish Network does not provide internet. Oceanic Time Warner....uh, what the hell is that? Is is TV service, internet service? Both?
08-10-2007, 04:14 PM
Oceanic Time Warner is the cable company
here in Hawaii. They offer cable tv, digital phone and Internet access. www.oceanic.com Currently there are these Internet providers Pacific LightNet www.plni.net www.aloha.net 334-4000 Seismic Internet www.seismicinternet.com Hawaiian Telcom http://hawaiiantel.com/ 643-3456 Oceanic Time Warner Cable www.oceanic.com www.hawaii.rr.com 643-2337 LavaNet www.lava.net Flex www.flex.com PLNI offers dialup,wireless,DSL Seismic offers dialup,DSL Hawaiian Telcom offers DSL, Dialup Oceanic Time Warner offers cable modem service. Alternately you can get Earthlink Cable Modem Service www.earthlink.net LavaNet offers DSL,dialup Flex Dialup DSL Oceanic Time Warner Road Runner is 44.95 a month (Less if you bundle it with other services). Earthlink Cable Modem Service is 41.95 a month. It is 5Mbps/384K service (There is Road Runner Turbo 8Mbps/512K for an additional 9.95 a month). Hawaiian Telcom offers 1.5Mbps/384K service for 37.99 month to month/29.99 w/ one year contract. 3Mbps/768K DSL is available for 37.99 month to month/ 29.99 with a year contract. If you can get Digital Cable service through Oceanic, odds are good that you can get Road Runner. It is available in most areas of the island, includingPuna, Kohala,Ka'u,Kona,Hamakua,Hilo. (Special exception for North Kohala) Oceanic Cable offers WAVE instead of Road Runner. For everyone's information, there is two flavors of WAVE. 24.95 (with Cable, 29.95 without cable) for 384K/384K service 44.95 for 3Mbps/384K service. DSL is available in most areas of the island too : http://www.dslreports.com/comap/cy/551/ If I can't make more complicated, Wireless is available too http://www.aloha.net/wireless/ http://www.alohabroadband.com/ http://www.coconut-wireless.net/ http://www.hibroad.com/ http://www.fastnethi.com/ http://www.awshi.com/index.asp
08-11-2007, 02:04 AM
Aaron,
Thanks for the virtual treatise on tv/internet availability! I really appreciate it.
08-11-2007, 02:51 AM
Only thing not mentioned so far is what we use -- a broadband pcmcia card for my laptop from Verizon Wireless. Unlimited minutes, $59.99 a month. We're up in the woods above Pahoa, off grid completely, and it works very well, though certainly not as fast as DSL or Cable. Satellite service has a huge up-front cost compared to this. We have the laptop configured as a basestation, so the iMac gets its internet access through the laptop. Besides, if I want to take it to town or the beach, no problem!
08-11-2007, 04:06 AM
quote: How difficult was it to set up your laptop as a basestation? I have this damn Airport for at least two years, and I still can configure it! Yet, I was able to configure my friend's daughters airport in Kaimuki two years ago! But I'd like to either setup my old iMac, or try to re-figure my airport basestation. So Jane, how hard was the setup?
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08-11-2007, 08:55 AM
Beachboy,
It's actually the laptop that acts as the base-station... I think there's a check box when setting up the network access that says something like "share this internet connection". The airport itself was superfluous for us -- the iMac has an internal airport card and we just set it up to connect to my tibook's network, and thereby it uses the access to get to the network. It was actually not all that difficult. We've used the airport in the past for sharing a connection, but there the airport got a direct lan connection from the DSL or cable router. In this case, the pcmcia card inserts in the tibook's slot. Sure wish we could be an airport with a card slot! They don't make that critter as yet, unfortunately! Don't expect any help from Verizon with this setup -- it's not a "supported" config. They want to sell more cards. Question... did your Mac book have a card slot? At some point, my poor aging tibook (circa 2001) will need replacing, and I can only detect from the apple web site that the Mac Book Pro has a slot. $1999 vs $999... big diff in pric e. Jane
08-11-2007, 09:33 AM
Novatel now has a USB dongle for Verizon's EVDO Broadband network.
http://www.wirefly.com/catalog/verizon_w...band-card/ Larry Larry
08-14-2007, 04:25 PM
Aloha All -
I am the Big Island Market Specialist for Pacific LightNet Communications. I supply wholesale Internet services to the major residential providers here on the island via our fiber network. (Coconut Wireless, Advanced Wireless, Aloha Broadband etc. We also own Aloha.net) As you know, cable is only available in certain areas and DSL has distance and port limitations. What kind of internet need do we have here in HPP? Are we talking a few houses...or many? We may be able to work something out! Bill
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