Hawaii Tech Update

I have been meaning to blog about our Hawaii vacation, but I have been busy catching up on everything I missed while I was gone.  This isn’t that post either.

This post is mostly about the technology of our vacation.  I saw my first iPad and iPhones it the wild.  I was kind of amazed at how many people have iPhones.  I guess that’s what happens in states that you can buy them.

I renting a mifi for my internet access over there.  It was cheaper than the hotel’s internet, and I could take it with me.  For the most part it worked really well.  I did run into the “unlimited” cap problem once though, and had to watch my usage for the rest of the week.  Companies should not be allowed to advertize “unlimited” when it clearly isn’t.  In the documentation it clearly stated that I have “unlimited” bandwidth as long as I don’t download or stream videos.  So I made sure not to stream or download video, and after just one day having iTunes open and downloading my podcasts, I got an email saying I was way over the “unlimited” limit.  So for the rest of the week I limited my podcast downloads.  In Honolulu my speeds were decent.  Slower than what I am use to, but usable.  In Hilo speeds were miserable, but for the most part were were out doing stuff, so I didn’t matter too much.  It would have sucked it I really needed to use the internet a lot there.

When we got home we were one iPod short of what we left with.  The wife left her Nano on the plane.  That kind of sucked, but she still has her Touch and Mini, so she will survive.  People that clean planes must get all kinds of goodies.