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Aloha,
Now that I've "officially" posted in the Introductions, I've got my first question.
Does anyone here have T-1 Internet? I've got a link to Lava Net's pricing, but my son and I are kind of confused by it. We thought it would be a large amount to have it installed but then reasonable monthly rates. From this Website, it looks like over $800 a month. Just looking for possible ways to get higher speed than the usual offerings in Puna.
Mahalo!
Cindy
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Your best bet is call up Hawaiian Telcom
and see how much they'd charge for a T-1.
As I mentioned to you via e-mail, the higher
cost of a T-1 through Lava is because you haveto pay local loop fees to HawTel and fees to LavaNet to connect to the net.
http://lava.net/sales/frame.html#pricing
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Use Roadrunner
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it cost when it’s free...now here come the taxes.....
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Since her son is a gamer, the 384K upload is
pretty pathetic. Actually I had a brain flash
this may be a cheaper solution
http://hawaii.twcbc.com/HAWAII/sec_formatted.asp?TRACKID=&CID=1744&DID=2309
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Has anyone used the satellite from starband?
-Cat
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Thanks everyone! Yes, Aaron's right about that upload for my son. Aaron I got so discouraged I didn't check back here. The corporate package with Roadrunner would give Jordan almost what he has here. 768 K up is pretty close to 1 Mb up, as long as it's reliable. I'll read more tomorrow. Was up late working on the compuer and it's - yikes - 3:30 a.m. Also I missed your point before about contacting Hawaiian Telcom to see about savings bypassing the loop. I'm not usually this lame, but just kind of on overload now. Talk to you tomorrow, and again, mahalo to all...
Cindy
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I had completely forgotten about the RR Biz class service. It is significantly cheaper than a T-1 service, but yes the max upload is 768K
on the corporate accounts.
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Hi Aaron and anyone whose interested in
ultra high speed Internet (not me, but it's for my son). Aaron, I don't know what to say, but THANK YOU sooo much. I talked to Nancy at Oceanic Cable after looking at their business plans, and unlike, DSL, we can get it wherever we can get cable. She said to be sure that a rental we're looking interested in that advertises "Cable" really means cable and not satellite. She said many of the rental ads are misleading this way. Anywaaaay, depending on how much we want to spend, we can have 5 Mb download and either 1 or 1.5 Mb upload! For the 1.5, we'd be paying double what we pay here, but it may be worth it. Jordan's really into trying this out for a month. I decided we'd spend more at a nice hotel/resort for a week than renting a house for a month, and by renting a home he can better a feel for living in HPP, and more of a realistic view of Internet there, etc. He said he wants to see what the neighborhood's like, how his kitties like it, etc :-) Big Smiles here! Even if it doesn't work out (and I think it will), I'll have a month on the island. His whole attitude is better now about it, so much so, that he wondered if we could bring everything we need "in case we decide we like it." Woohoo! That's pretty huge coming from 14 y.o. So, yes the business packages at Oceanic Cable aren't that bad. The one with 768 upload is just a wee bit then we pay here now. Thank you again! I never would have found that. I found the Roadrunner site but they don't tell you anything. Oh, and one of the other customer support people, Deron, even did a survey on lunch break to see what kind of latency issues other online gamers have. That reminds me...thank you also for offering to test Jordan's games. I jumped the gun on that one. He was just wondering if, overall, Internet tasks are slowed down a lot there since Hawaii's so far from the mainland. Has anyone noticed a big difference? Well, I'd better get to work and start making some money lol (I work online).
Aloha,
Cindy
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PS - Just saw all my typos - yikes. I was excited.
Cindy
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As for the latency question. It used to be a
problem 6 years ago when there was not enough
bandwidth to the mainland. But over time things
have gotten radically better.
