Mele20
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join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
| Location is everything (100mbps/100mbps on the Big Island)
I guess everyone on my island needs to move to Hualalai Resort in Kona. |
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Pizz
Hi
join:2000-10-27
Astoria, NY | I like that 100/100 !!! Docsis 3.0 hello there!
sorry you cant get it  wonder what they'll offer the other islands. |
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Mele20
Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
| It's just the one resort area...Multimillionaires have homes there (Michael Dell has a home in the area although I don't think it is at the resort) and there are rental vacation homes there also. Oceanic evidently has an exclusive agreement with their Homeowners Association to provide phone service, cable TV and Roadrunner and probably landline phone and satellite TV will not be allowed there. So, it is a sweet deal for Oceanic and they will probably charge a hefty fee which those folks won't bat an eye at but most folks on the island would find prohibitive price wise. Probably Oceanic is doing similar deals at very fancy resorts on Maui and Kauai also. Ordinary folks on the Big Island will have to settle for getting RR turbo plus offered sometime this year on this island. I was told the work to enable offering it in Hilo is scheduled within the next six weeks to two months.
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Mario805
join:2008-07-03 | reply to Mele20
Fiber to home??? Where else in the states does TWC do that??? any1 know if they do it in California?? |
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daveinpoway
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join:2006-07-03
Poway, CA
| I didn't see any prices; it could well be that the monthly bill for fiber-to-home will be enough to temper your desire for this service. I have read that Comcast is charging something like $150/month for 50 Mbps download (can't recall the upload speed) in their initial DOCSIS 3.0 deployment. |
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Reinvent3d
join:2004-12-06
Camarillo, CA
| Wasn't there a discussion around here before about how they try to say the same exact thing as Verizon? Offering "fiber" to the home, when in fact, it's still coax, but the average joe blow, doesn't know the difference..?
If it is indeed true, that sounds awesome for the islands. 100Mbps upstream and down. That's pretty sick. But, I wonder if it's really for like HOA's, that split connections into condos or something.
And Mario, calm down buddy. We know you want a speed increase, but you just gotta wait! |
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Mele20
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join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
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said by Mario805  :Fiber to home??? Where else in the states does TWC do that??? any1 know if they do it in California?? My friend who sent this to me said he called the person listed in the PDF document and it is true that homes at this Kona resort will be getting 100mbps/100mbps. He said that supposedly other areas of this island will get it also but I wonder about that. I can see other expensive resorts on the Kona side getting it but average homes/condos/apartments on the island - I doubt it.
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Anonymous_
Anonymous
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join:2004-06-21
127.0.0.1
clubs:
 ·RoadRunner Cable
·Time Warner Cable
 ·Time Warner VOIP
2 edits | reply to daveinpoway
said by daveinpoway :I didn't see any prices; it could well be that the monthly bill for fiber-to-home will be enough to temper your desire for this service. I have read that Comcast is charging something like $150/month for 50 Mbps download (can't recall the upload speed) in their initial DOCSIS 3.0 deployment.
LMFAO
upload speed |
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maartena
Stacked.
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join:2002-05-10
Orange, CA | reply to Mele20
That tells me the price of 100/100 is probably going to be in in the $150/175 range or so, something only the richer families will be able to afford. |
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Konaguy
Live From Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
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join:2000-10-21
Kailua Kona, HI
 ·Hawaiian Telcom
| For everyone's information, this is where this FTTH service is going to be rolled out »www.hualalairesort.com/ The resort consists of the Four Seasons Hualalai, Kona Village, a PGA style golf course,a bunch of luxury homes. There is no condos in this project. |
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
·North State Commun..
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Time Warner Business Class will run a direct fiber connection to your house right now if you want. It's pretty reasonably priced too. (Compared to their standard Cable Modem based Business offerings.)
So they have the capability to do this everywhere now, they just don't see a need for it. |
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rcdailey
Dragoonfly
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join:2005-03-29
Rialto, CA | reply to Konaguy
They have sites available for new construction. All you need is enough money. That brings to mind the old saw: If you have to ask, you can't afford it. |
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Konaguy
Live From Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
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join:2000-10-21
Kailua Kona, HI | Since the Hualalai Resort is a exclusive development any lots or luxury homes normally don't show up in the MLS. Other luxury developments along the Kohala Coast also block listings to the MLS also. |
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rcdailey
Dragoonfly
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join:2005-03-29
Rialto, CA
1 edit | They show the properties that are available on the website that you posted, though I did not see a price anywhere. Square footage is listed and there are several views shown. A prospective buyer would have to make contact with the resort. Correction, the prospective buyer would have to contact the seller, whether the developer or a third party (as in the case of existing homes). They are all very beautiful, and very luxurious. |
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Rombus
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join:2007-04-11
Columbus, OH | Im curios if this will be provided under the business class service, or if it will be considered "Residential" |
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