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| Just Moved to Hawaiian Tel I was a Lavanet user with a 3mbit DSL line from Hawaiian Tel. It was very reliable, but not especially fast. I dropped it when Lavanet dropped their in-house e-mail for Google. Now I am running straight Hawaiian Tel.
The changeover was painful. It took Hawaiian Tel about 9 days to drop the Lavanet line, and another week to re-establish it under their control. As the tech said, they had some glitches.
I now have a 7mbit line that sometimes manages 7.5, all for less money than Lavanet. Latency is fairly high, though, never dropping below 94ms. Hawaiian Tel's DNS servers are probably the worst in the nation. Much of Debian's domain never resolves, making system updates problematical (yes, I run Debian Linux). I work around that by specifying other DNS servers (4.2.2.1, eg.).
If you know what you are doing, Hawaiian Tel is OK. Had Lavanet not switched their e-mail service, I would have stayed with them. | |
| Welcome to "high speed Internet." Did you know since 2010 the US government considers "high speed Internet access" to be a minimum of 4mb down/1mb up? (the South Koreans are already aiming at 1gb down for residential customers over the next couple years)
I just upgraded my HawTel DSL from 3mb to 7mb. 3mb was solid. Now provisioned at 7mb, I usually get 5mb but on locally peered cached sites I get 7mb. Just pointing out one of the things you may be missing using a non-HawTel DNS but since you're getting the full 7mb, you're probably not missing much. The customer rep actually tried to get me to upgrade up to 11mb. 
Read you on latency. Online gaming such as latency sensitive WoW is tough if you're into the more serious aspects like when you're up against others with less than 35 ms latency to the servers. | |
| Welcome to "high speed Internet." Did you know since 2010 the US government considers "high speed Internet access" to be a minimum of 4mb down/1mb up? (the South Koreans are already aiming at 1gb down for residential customers over the next couple years)
Yes, drool. One benefit to the 7mbit speed over 3 is that my Roku box now gives high definition streaming options. I can't say I notice much difference in image quality. Another advantage is that we can have two Youtube streams going at the same time, something that virtually never happens. Perhaps the biggest advantage is the speed of updates. A large update, like Libre(Open)Office downloads in less than half the time. | |
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