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America Spends More Money on Slower Internet

This article was in Bloomberg: U.S. Internet Users Pay More for Slower Service. I've read many pieces like this, but can't help myself. The problem is familiar. But each time, I hope to read that a solution is brewing somewhere. After having lived and traveled in Asia, it was disheartening to see the state of broadband here. Discovered that my Internet in Hawaii was…

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Added by Marcus Sortijas on December 28, 2012 at 9:30am — 13 Comments

Pushing up the bandwidth from 10g to 40g and 100g!

Sorry Hawaii is not in the bandwidth game. But I would suggest that our State legislatures should start that initiatives to push this issue to the top! All new development should also be considering the usage of Fiber Optics in all aspects of building, such as FTTP or FTTH.

Today’s cable companies uses EPON (ethernet PON) as part of the DOCSIS provisioning specifications. DSL has its similar specification and bandwidth limitations.

However with optical networks we will…

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Added by John Sydney Yamane on June 1, 2011 at 12:02am — 3 Comments

Help Establish Free WiFi at HNL

Dan Leuck, Brent Norris, and Andrew Fowers and I were on a panel discussion today at the Zero Emissions Congress, talking about how digital technology can reduce emissions - and numerous other related topics.

One of the topics concerned the limited availability of wifi and I agreed to start a motion here on Tech Hui.

I would like to collect 10 to 100 Reasons Why HNL Should Offer Free Wifi and I am counting on the Tech Huians to help me crowd…

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Added by Roxanne Darling on September 16, 2010 at 8:30pm — 18 Comments