It may be fitting to ask this question here, but so according to what you say, the "
"mobile broadband" we are getting on Lamma would be limited to that microwave link anyway, if all companies rely on it to transmit data?
I've noticed that even while just using a SSH terminal to connect to computers in Hong Kong, it has been painfully slow whether I use Smartone (from Jan 2010 until July 2011) or CSL 1010 (since July 2011)... Both are equally sluggish from my home in Sha Po, although remarkably fast outside, or even on the ferry.
Other tips about how all these companies connect to the Internet on Lamma?
I've also just noticed your thread on network speeds Lamma-to-America:
http://www.lamma.com.hk/forum-OK/viewtopic.php?t=6830
Lamma-Gung wrote:
Just a little update from Andy, my computer goto guy, who's just replaced my overheated display card in my home office this afternoon:
Yes, it's Hutchison's high-speed optical fibre network being connected now for all of Lamma, including YSW, Hung Shing Yeh and even Sok Kwu Wan already. Yung Shue Long and Tai Peng will be next.
100 Mb Internet is coming to Lamma in about half a year or so, probably later. Quite an improvement to our current 3Mb maximum from PCCW.
HGC is using HK Electric undersea cable tunnels for this fibre, as both of them are part of the Li Ka-Shing empire. PCCW is still using just their ancient, puny microwave link on top of Po Wah Yuen to connect all of us to HK Island and the Internet. It's not profitable for them to upgrade that link for just about 1,000 Internet subscribers on Lamma. That's why they'll probably never offer any higher speed for Lamma, even though we've been asking them for almost ten years via various channels. That's also why NOW Broadband TV has only a handful of English channels, despite charging $398/month on Lamma.
Let's hope HGC is speeding up the 100 Mb service offerings, now that they've almost connected their extensive fibre network. I'll become one of their first new customers!