Always nice to get a speed boost. My friends at Oceanic gave me the “inside scoop” that their network upgrade is almost complete. A quick check to speedtest.net confirmed that my Hawaii Road Runner Broadband connection is cranking at 10mb down and 1mb up.

My download speed as measured by speedtest.net

We usually take these kinds of things for granted but allow me to contrast this to the not-so-distant past. I recall in 1993, just before the commercial Internet was just taking hold in Hawaii, UH had one of the few Internet connections. I recall being told that the entire UH campus, including all the community colleges share a single T-1 connection. A T-1 is 1.5mb/sec.

So in less than 2 decades, we’ve gone from 1.5mb to serve an entire University and its colleges to 6x the speed going to a single home.

Now, lets talk price. I recall in 2000 when my company CyberCom purchased a T-1 line for its business, the price was about $800/mo. Today, only 5 years later, I get 6x the download speed and about 2/3 the upload speed for 1/20th the cost.

The only word I have for that is: Amazing!

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Alan Pollock, the VP of Marketing at Oceanic Time Warner cable gives us the inside scoop of their upcoming plans to launch a wireless 4G (WiMax) network on Oahu with download speeds ranging from 4-6mb/s which is competitive with today’s hard-wired home broadband services.

Also in the interview Alan talks about the upcoming 10mb/s upgrade for Road Runner residential customers. Enjoy!

You can directly download the file here

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It’s always fun to have a few games to play on your computer. Games help break up your day and keep you from burning out. Of course if you’re at work make sure you’re not breaking any rules.

Some game links:

Road Runner subscribers: great collection of games, many free.

Here’s my personal collection of over a dozen game sites, mostly free.

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When was the last time you verified your A/V sofware?When was the last time you verified your anti-virus software is up to date? I get emails from people all the time that get infected with viruses. Folks, don’t let this happen to you. A ruined computer is no fun. If you’re a Road Runner subscriber, you can get free anti-virus software so you’ve got no excuse!