Hawaiian Telcom DSL

[davidl966]

Re: Hawaiian Telcom DSL

Sorry for not clarifying. I have 4 phone jacks total, each set up for different numbers. I have 1 phone jack in my living room, and 1 in each of my 3 bedrooms

I'll call up Hawaiian Telcom when I have the time (I get home from work at 5:30 almost every day). Anyways I appreciate your help guys. Mahalo!

[Beachboy]

Re: Hawaiian Telcom DSL

I just found this (hawaiithreads) web site by accident, but I'd like to add my experience to the discussion.

I live in Princeville, Kauai. Verizon DSL got here before Cable so I wen't with DSL (about 2 years ago). Performance never exceeded 700Kbps (measured with Verizon's infospeed.verizon.net) Then I had two months-long bouts of inability to connect during evening hours. Mainland Verizon help INSISTED it was not load related - separate straws, etc. - Even though my neighbors generally had no such problems (and much faster DSL speeds too). A VERY helpful local Hawaiian Telcom rep FINALLY admitted it was load related and there was no quick easy fix, though they did eventually eliminate the disconnects and refund two months fees. Even with the newer 3Mbps DSL service, I never saw more than 700Kbps.

I switched to Cable two months ago. Speeds vary of course but are CONSISTENTLY over 3Mbps, often in the 4-4.5Mbps range and NEVER lower than 1.5Mbps. No outages or hiccups yet.

I have polled about 10 DSL/Cable subscribers on this island (all using the same verizon speed test). On Kauai at least, Cable is "mo better" by a speed factor of 2-6 TIMES.

So, I too feel the Hawaiian Telcom adds about separate straws are, at best, misleading.

ps - I went with Earthlink Cable rather than direct thru Oceanic Time Warner. Earthlink was $3.00 cheaper per month, had ZERO install fee (vs. if I recall, $50 or $75 from Oceanic). Oceanic reps admitted that the bandwidth will be tha same either way.

That's my story.

what are your monthly fees for Earthlink cable?

[Konaguy]

Re: Hawaiian Telcom DSL

what are your monthly fees for Earthlink cable?

I believe its 41.95 a month if you order directly from Earthlink, 44.95 if you
go through Oceanic Time Warner Cable.

[Linkmeister]

Re: Hawaiian Telcom DSL

Does anyone know whether it's feasible to use WinFax (in Win XP) for receiving faxes when you're on DSL? The help pages for WinFax say no, but I'm not sure I trust them.

[Beachboy]

Re: Hawaiian Telcom DSL

never mind Cable vs DSL, they both have their good points, and their bad points. Hey, my friend bitches up and down about DSL! His service was down for two weeks!

What we should do is start emailing our city council members and tell them the citizens of Honolulu want free Wireless access, like some of these other cities across America are doing. Of Course Verison, Time/Warner etc, etc.. would be screaming...but who cares about them? With the proper push we could get movement on this going sooner than later...maybe?

[Konaguy]

Re: Hawaiian Telcom DSL

Forget WiFi.. fiber to the home is what I want

[1stwahine]

Re: Hawaiian Telcom DSL

Forget WiFi.. fiber to the home is what I want

Just wanted to say Hi! Aaron!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Auntie Lynn

[Konaguy]

Re: Hawaiian Telcom DSL

Just wanted to say Hi! Aaron!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Auntie Lynn

[Menehune Man]

Re: Hawaiian Telcom DSL

I have Hawaiian Telcom DSL.

Everything is working fine since the initial changeover.

My question?
How do I create a Blog?
Does Hawaiian Telcom have something set up through them?
Or do I go to a certain place online?

Thanks for any help and ideas that you can give me.

"Menehune Man's World" needs to be born.

[Konaguy]

Re: Hawaiian Telcom DSL

My question?
How do I create a Blog?
Does Hawaiian Telcom have something set up through them?
Or do I go to a certain place online?

If you log into Hawaiian Tel Portal , click on OhanaNet and you can setup a Blogware account
or you can use Blogger.You can do a Google search for other Blogging sites.

[Menehune Man]

Re: Hawaiian Telcom DSL

Mahalos Aaron!

[1stwahine]

Re: Hawaiian Telcom DSL

I have Hawaiian Telcom DSL.

Everything is working fine since the initial changeover.

My question?
How do I create a Blog?
Does Hawaiian Telcom have something set up through them?
Or do I go to a certain place online?

Thanks for any help and ideas that you can give me.

"Menehune Man's World" needs to be born.

Menehune Man, All you had to do was ask Ryan or me. Ryan is my Webmasta when I first started Blogging at hawaiistories.com ~ our sister site. I can also set you up with your own Blog under AuntiePupule.com with your own title. You can do all what you see on mine at http://www.auntiepupule.com/blog

Auntie Lynn

BTW: It's FREE!!!

[pzarquon]

Re: Hawaiian Telcom DSL

Menehune Man, as Aunty Lynn notes, I'd be happy to set you up with a blog alongside other local storytellers at HawaiiStories. LavaNet is also hosting blogs for free. Blogger is a good option, too, and they're just about to unroll an entirely new system that's a significant improvement over the current one (which was built by another company and stagnated somewhat after Google bought it).

Sounds like a separate thread devoted to comparing various blogging services might be in order... I'd just posted a little about a new one called Vox.

Hawaiian Telcom isn't in the blogging business... and considering the way things are going now, that's perhaps a good thing.

[Konaguy]

Re: Hawaiian Telcom DSL

Menehune Man, as Aunty Lynn notes, I'd be happy to set you up with a blog alongside other local storytellers at HawaiiStories. LavaNet is also hosting blogs for free. Blogger is a good option, too, and they're just about to unroll an entirely new system that's a significant improvement over the current one (which was built by another company and stagnated somewhat after Google bought it).

Sounds like a separate thread devoted to comparing various blogging services might be in order... I'd just posted a little about a new one called Vox.

Hawaiian Telcom isn't in the blogging business... and considering the way things are going now, that's perhaps a good thing.

Yes HawTel is not in blogging business, but they do offer a value added blogging service through Blogware

As for Blogger Since Google owns Blogger now, they are adding new services to Blogger. But to take advantage of them you have re-build your account around your Google Gmail account. I just did this on Monday, as they are going to force everyone to do it in a few months.

[Hellbent]

Re: Hawaiian Telcom DSL

any gamers using hawaiian telcom? my rr has always been shabby and now i have someone else using the connection and i tell you, he must be downloading the world. since he moved in, my ping has shot thru the roof and im considering hawaiian tel.