Anonymous_
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join:2004-06-21
127.0.0.1
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Re: Look out...tiered pricing and monthly caps coming !
internet is in limited supply on a island |
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Mele20
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join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
| Not true. We have tons of available bandwidth. Perhaps bandwith is limited on some other islands of which you have knowledge but NOT true since 2002 for the state of Hawaii. Do a little research before you make statements like that. Through your ignorance of bandwidth conditions in this state you are supporting Oceanic TW's decision to screw the users here. Do you work for TW? It is not surprising that the WORST broaband ISP in the nation would decide to screw it users and hope for ignorance like yours to support their greedy, grubby hands.
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"The same ferocity that our founders devoted to protect the freedom and independence of the press is now appropriate for our defense of the freedom of the internet. The stakes are the same: the survival of our Republic". Al Gore, The Assault on Reason |
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NSA_CIA
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1 edit | Big difference between transport bandwidth and last mile bandwidth.
Hawaii has plenty of transport and not enough last mile. So what punker said is true.
...and no punker doesn't work for TWC |
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NormanS
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join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
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Road Runner, like other ISPs, offers a portal for those who want one, who think that they absolutely need one. No ISP requires the use of their portals. I've been doing fine for seven years without using the SBC Yahoo! (now AT&T Yahoo!) portal.
Many site webmasters only test their site against the two most popular browsers, Mozilla Firefox, and MS Internet Explorer. For various reasons, they ignore the Windows port of Safari, or such alternate browsers as SeaMonkey and K-Melon. When they tag their web site with the notice, "This site works best with Firefox or Internet Explorer", they are not trying to tell you which browser to use, only which browsers they have tested their site against.
ISPs are gearing their service to folks like my ex-girlfriend, my cousin, and his wife and father-in-law. They don't care about us, because they know we can figure out how to make their connection work without their portal, or their crap applications.
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Norman
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RR User
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I was living on the Big Island last summer, several miles south of Hilo. The place we were staying at did not have Broadband, however I have no clue if was available to the area or not.
It wasn't too big of a deal though, since we spent most of our time going to places all over this Big Island and also spent some time in Oahu.
I'm well aware TW services Hawaii, but I had no idea they didn't offer turbo to many people. I'm sure, if there was some motivation for profit, they might upgrade their network to make turbo available to all users if it meant enough people would get bumped to turbo tier.
Does TW experience pretty high penetration rates over there like they do on the mainland? If not, that may be one of the reasons their nodes seem to cover more homes than here. It could also just be the fact that a bunch of neighborhoods, at least in the area I was staying where quite huge in size, but the home density is very low, like one house every few acres. |
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