When the lot was initially purchased, there was no such thing as Internet. Land line service only. Maybe 300 baud modem to a dedicated mainframe.
In the early 2000’s when the lot passed to us, dial-up modem at 56 kbps would have been de rigueur. It was too far from the central office of the phone company for DSL, and there wasn’t (and still isn’t) any TV cable. At the time, I was thinking satellite would be the best way to go. Some people had microwave links, but they were quite expensive.
But now, several cell towers have gone up in Ocean View, the most massive multi-antenna complex near Palm Parkway and Reef Parkway. My 5g phone connects fine. That could be the ultimate internet source, with an unlimited data plan. Here are the speed test results:
This was at the site where I want to build a sun shelter. The location is in a broken lava tube of sorts – in other words, in a mini valley. Terrible data rate. But I could make a clear phone call to Honolulu, and presume that texts would be reliable, too.The lot has a little mountain on it. This test was run from the highland. It’s decent, enough for streaming video. This is where a cabin would be built, if ever. But thinking about it, maybe an antenna sticking up just 20 feet or so in the lowland would be enough to get line-of-sight to the cell tower. Or, I could get internet here, and beam it over to the lowland via wi-fi.This reading was taken from above the road in Ocean View Estates, 1.0 mile from the cell tower.I took this reading from the Pineapple Cabin, near the ridge of Ocean View Estates. It’s further from the cell tower (2.15 miles as the crow flies). This test was at 7:37 pm, after dark. The previous test was at 7:05 pm, still the edge of twilight. It could be that the cabin has clear line-of-sight to the tower, while the previous reading, though geographically closer, may have had obscuring trees or terrain. 33/7 is better than I get through ADSL2+.
