Too damn quiet

[Jason Forester]

So, anything going on in Hawai'i internet?

Any clearwire users out there who would like to comment on their experience?

Anything else new on the way for Hawai'i consumers in terms of access?

- j

[Nai`a]

Post by Jason Forester
So, anything going on in Hawai'i internet?

Aside from quite the up-tick in spam loads?

Post by Jason Forester
Any clearwire users out there who would like to comment on their experience?

Seems to give a nice, 1544x256 speed test.
Although sometimes, ping/traceroute to local sites seems ... non-optimal.
Sometimes.
Otherwise, for what I need it for, it seems to work quite well.

Post by Jason Forester
Anything else new on the way for Hawai'i consumers in terms of access?

I hear rumors of Broadband over Power, but.
And the whole free wireless could use a good look at.

Had a friend from Hilo stay at my place last night before he headed off
to China, and he fired up his MacBook, and ... there were a dozen+ open
wifi hotspots that he could have logged onto.

Aloha mai Nai`a!

[Jason Forester]

Post by Nai`a

Post by Jason Forester
So, anything going on in Hawai'i internet?

Aside from quite the up-tick in spam loads?

Post by Jason Forester
Any clearwire users out there who would like to comment on their experience?

Seems to give a nice, 1544x256 speed test.
Although sometimes, ping/traceroute to local sites seems ... non-optimal.
Sometimes.
Otherwise, for what I need it for, it seems to work quite well.

So unless you do latency sensitive things (voip, gaming) it's probably
pretty nice. Cool.

Post by Nai`a
Had a friend from Hilo stay at my place last night before he headed off
to China, and he fired up his MacBook, and ... there were a dozen+ open
wifi hotspots that he could have logged onto.

As opposed to the one open wifi in Hilo (Kopekope coffee shop) ;-)

- jason, also in hilo these days

[Nai`a]

Post by Jason Forester
So unless you do latency sensitive things (voip, gaming) it's probably
pretty nice. Cool.

I found it annoyed me once doing SSH to Malasada.
But I'm guessing that was an abberation of some sort.

Post by Jason Forester
As opposed to the one open wifi in Hilo (Kopekope coffee shop) ;-)

Wot, Ken's doesn't have a hotspot? This Must Change!
Then again, I was there on a Sunday morning at 9am a few weeks back.
I'm reasonably certain that anything that would keep patrons hanging
around longer might not be looked upon by manglement as a Feature.

They should pay those folks Danger Pay for working Sunday Morning.
We sat at the counter, so we were finishing up before some people who
were in line before us even got seated. :)

Aloha mai Nai`a!