#Speedtest hawaiiantel upgrade#

Spectrum's plans are overpriced and if you're a grandfathered customer they try their damndest to upgrade you out of those plans. Speed test results from user-initiated tests may also be impacted by the time of day the tests are performed, the age and capacity of the user’s equipment and devices, use of virtual private network or other remote access software, and other non-service related variables. Presently you can begin test your Internet speed just by tapping on GO button. Also, you can see whether your ISP is giving you all the data transfer capacity that you’re paying for. If you are streaming, Hawaiian Telcom is also a better value because they offer faster speeds for less prices than Spectrum. Testing Hawaiian Telcom Internet speed just requires a couple of moments, and it can help you to address network issues. When it comes to technical support, Hawaiian Telcom is pretty shitty - if there is a major outage you will never reach them, whereas with Spectrum you will at least get some outsourced dude if it happens in the middle of the night. When it comes to value, Hawaiian Telcom has better prices. I don't know if this changed recently, but that difference in PING is why Spectrum wins when it comes to gaming and only gaming. I tested these two services back to back against each other a few years ago and Spectrum (back then Oceanic Time Warner) was almost always 10-20 ms FASTER (lower) than Hawaiian Tel. You need lower ping for a better gaming experience, especially if you play fighters or FPSes. The main difference between the two services when it comes to gaming (not streaming, incoming or outgoing) is PING. They respond more quickly to outages and their reporting functionality is better when there are outages. Spectrum has 24/7 customer service (even though their customer service at night is outsourced). This is for people with the nuclear family with 2.5 kids and everyone watches Netflix. If you don't game, HawaiianTel is better. This is an old thread, but I'd like to add my two cents on this. Just so you can get your tea-bag jollies.

It is a non-trivial relativistic challenge, and there have been recent developments that may make 20msec ping anywhere on the planet. This is why Bill Gates was trying to put Teledesic into LEO (low Earth orbit) in the 90's, and why Musk is trying to put Starlink in now. At the speed of light, out and back is only about 300 msec but the transceiver and switching on the satellite will add several hundred milliseconds, and each ground station will add several hundred milliseconds. That is with their satellite connection, which is from the Earth to a geosynchronous satellite in an orbit 28,000 miles out. If you watch the news, a reporter in New York talking to a reporter in the Middle East, there is almost a 3-second lag. Even using, it might be able to get 15 ms ping to a few fat-pipe places but in-game, the overhead will add 10's of milliseconds. Most servers are set up to boot anybody with 110ms ping. The best ping you will get to a game server is about 70 ms.

All the online game servers are on continents. You are almost 3,000 miles from the closest continent. The up/down speed doesn't have much to do with online gaming.